Not Dead Really

An elderly woman had such a weak pulse when the doctors examined her they thought that she was dead, but she wasn't.

MOT Santa Ana Hospital 400x250This happened in Almuñécar yesterday when the town’s medical centre received an alert from 112 and quickly sent an ambulance with a doctor onboard to the  70-year old’s residents.

Following the established protocol, they declared her as ‘dead.’ The next step would be an autopsy to establish the cause of death. They even informed an undertaker.

However, when the Guardia Civil, a judicial offical and a forensic doctor arrived, they detected that she was breathing faintly so they gave her an adrenaline injection and rushed her to Hospital Santa Ana in Motril where she remains hospitalised in the ICU.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)

  4 comments for “Not Dead Really

  1. Patrick Barry Storey
    February 1, 2023 at 12:54 pm

    Hence I said. Portable defib/ECG . !!
    With age and weak heart. You get a thing called “Dying-Heart Syndrome.”
    Basically insufficient oxygenated blood supply to the respiratory center of the brain. So insufficient cardiac output. None means dead. But insufficient will just about keep the heart pumping. Weakly until it becomes too weak to pump. Sadly I have seen this in my past work. Hence CPR. A semi automatic defib/ECG machine will show the lowered cardiac output. Not for shocking. Maybe cardiac drugs. ??

  2. Patrick Barry Storey
    February 1, 2023 at 12:48 pm

    I realise that Darren.
    A semi automatic defib. Will recognise that there is output other then VF. So will not advise shocking. But carry out basic cpr. First ones I used. PAC 3 I think. We had to put three electrodes onto the chest area. Then look to see the output if any. The ones that the public can use are more basic. But thank you anyway. !

  3. Darren
    February 1, 2023 at 10:46 am

    @Patrick – a defib is only for shocking the heart into a regular rhythm if the heart has stopped or gone all juddery. Applying one to someone with a working heartbeat would do the opposite of helping.

  4. Patrick Barry Storey
    January 31, 2023 at 11:56 am

    Great faith in all doctors. Maybe a portable defib/ECG would have helped. ?? Ambulances here do carry portable defibs don’t they?? Not private , but emergency. ?

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