It’s all over the news; a British woman survives six hours with her heart stopped, thanks to Spanish doctors in Barcelona.

The medical miracle was mostly down to her body temperature being so low – 16ºC – when she was found in the Pyrennes – in short, hypothermia saved her life.

The 34-year-old, English teacher was brought down by helicopter straight to the Vall d’Hebron hospital in Barcelona. From the moment that she was located on the mountainside to her entering the hospital, the fire service, who rescued her, and the paramedics in the helicopter, constantly kept up CPR procedure.

Once hospitalised, the last part of the miracle was a state-of-the-art ECMO apparatus that supplied her vital organs with oxygenated blood, slowly bringing up her body temperature until her heart began to beat again using defibrillators.

Just under a dozen days later, Audrey Mash was discharged to lead a normal life, having suffered no permanent damage to her body other than a small loss of feeling in her hands.

This the longest time in Spain that a person has survived with his or her heart stopped and one of the longest times in the whole of the world.

(News: Barcelona, Cataluña)