LONDON -- Audrey Mash arrived at a Spanish hospital cold to the touch and all but dead: Her heart had stopped beating hours earlier, as she clung to her husband in a mountain snowstorm and her body temperature collapsed.But the cold that nearly killed her also helped to save her life. After six hours
LONDON — Audrey Mash arrived at a Spanish hospital cold to the touch and all but dead: Her heart had stopped beating hours earlier, as she clung to her husband in a mountain snowstorm and her body temperature collapsed.
Her near-death experience will go down as one of the most extreme on record, and Argudo said it was a record at least in Spain: the longest case of cardiac arrest in which the patient survived. By the time emergency workers rescued the couple, her body temperature was 64 degrees Fahrenheit, well below the average 98.6. A helicopter rescue team airlifted her to Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona and doctors hurried to try to save her, though she was by all appearances dead.
It also allows doctors to control the blood’s temperature, which they slowly increased until Mash’s body temperature reached a point where they could use a defibrillator to shock her heart into beating normally again. Medical journals have long noted cases of people who emerged from yearslong comas. And medical studies of hypothermic cardiac arrests in Norway have explored the cases of patients who survived after their core body temperature dropped to 56 degrees Fahrenheit and they spent nearly seven hours in that condition.
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