Aborted Premie comes back to life after 5 hours in cooler!

madanthonywayne · Aug 18, 2008

This is a bizarre story. A woman who was 5 months pregnant found out that she was having internal bleeding and her baby was showing no signs of life. So she aborted the baby, it was stillborn and put in a cooler. 5 hours later the father returned to claim the "body" for burial and the baby was breathing!

A premature baby who was pronounced dead "came back to life" Sunday after five hours in Nahariya Hospital in northern Israel.

The baby girl, who was in a cooler at the hospital, suddenly showed signs of life and was being treated in the premature baby unit.

Doctors estimated that the cooler brought the fetus "back to life."

The mother, 26, from a Western Galilee village, was in the fifth month of her pregnancy when she underwent a series of tests, during which it was discovered that she was suffering from internal bleeding and that the fetus had ceased to show signs of life.

The woman underwent an abortion and the baby, weighing 610 grams, was extracted from her womb without a pulse, hospital officials said.

A senior doctor pronounced the baby dead and she was transferred to the cooler.

Five hours later, the woman's husband came to the hospital to take what he thought was his dead baby girl for burial.

When the baby was taken out of the cooler, she began to breathe. The premature baby was then taken to the intensive care ward, where doctors were attempting to save her life. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218710394816&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
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Nonsense · Aug 18, 2008

IT'S JESUS!!!

or there is a logical explanation...

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Pandaemoni · Aug 18, 2008

You mean Jesus has been reincarnated as a cooler?

I am skeptical of a magic cooler that bringeth the death back to life, since "malpractice by the doctor" makes so much more sense. It's not a miracle, it's a lawsuit.

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madanthonywayne · Aug 18, 2008

Pandaemoni said: ↑

You mean Jesus has been reincarnated as a cooler?

I am skeptical of a magic cooler that bringeth the death back to life, since "malpractice by the doctor" makes so much more sense. It's not a miracle, it's a lawsuit.
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Can you sue for malpractice in Isreal? Don't they have socialized medicine? As, effectively, government agents, do the doctors have sovereign immunity?

Nonsense · Aug 18, 2008

Um skeptical, nothing has been claimed yet. Relax, I'm sure they will try to find a scientific reason.

Orleander · Aug 18, 2008

Haven't children who drowned in icy waters been brought back?
Was the baby alive in the frigid cooler or did it come back once it was brought out of the cooler?

visceral_instinct · Aug 18, 2008

Holy shit.

Ya, I heard of a young child who got stuck in snow and was dead for a while, but they were able to revive her cos the cold prevented damage...something like that.

madanthonywayne · Aug 20, 2008

Looks like the miracle baby has died, again.

The "dead" miscarried fetus brought to a hospital morgue who started moving when taken by her father for burial on Monday was not a "medical miracle," said a leading Jerusalem neonatologist on Tuesday.

The infant, weighing 610 grams and born after 23 weeks of gestation, breathed her last on Tuesday morning despite doctors' frantic efforts to save her. She was buried in the Western Galilee village of Kafr Yasif later in the day.

Prof. Arthur Eidelman, who headed the neonatal unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center between 1978 and 2003 and then led the pediatrics department for several years, told The Jerusalem Post that such immature infants had very slow and irregular heartbeats and breathing cycles, and that the baby "didn't die and come back to life."

Eidelman, who based his assessment of the unusual case at Nahariya's Western Galilee Government Hospital solely on media reports, said a well-trained pediatrician should have checked the miscarried fetus rather than the two hospital gynecologists who had pronounced her dead.

The baby died at 5:15 a.m. in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit. The parents, Faiza and Ali Mardub, expressed their sorrow over the death of their baby, whom they had named Bana Hiba. The father carried his daughter, wrapped in a white shroud, to her grave in the village's Muslim cemetery and recited prayers. The grave was covered with sage leaves and flowers. Mourners - only men attended the funeral - said they hoped lessons would be learned and accounts taken by hospital doctors. Hospital director Dr. Mas'ud Barhood expressed his sorrow over the sad case and sent his condolences to the family.

The survival of such an immature baby, whether she was in an incubator or a cooler in the morgue, was very unlikely, said Eidelman. "It was a borderline case," he said, adding that she almost inevitably would have suffered from severe disability if she had lived.

The "dead" miscarried fetus brought to a hospital morgue who started moving when taken by her father for burial on Monday was not a "medical miracle," said a leading Jerusalem neonatologist on Tuesday.

Premature baby dies in Nahariya

The infant, weighing 610 grams and born after 23 weeks of gestation, breathed her last on Tuesday morning despite doctors' frantic efforts to save her. She was buried in the Western Galilee village of Kafr Yasif later in the day.

Prof. Arthur Eidelman, who headed the neonatal unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center between 1978 and 2003 and then led the pediatrics department for several years, told The Jerusalem Post that such immature infants had very slow and irregular heartbeats and breathing cycles, and that the baby "didn't die and come back to life."

Eidelman, who based his assessment of the unusual case at Nahariya's Western Galilee Government Hospital solely on media reports, said a well-trained pediatrician should have checked the miscarried fetus rather than the two hospital gynecologists who had pronounced her dead.

The baby died at 5:15 a.m. in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit. The parents, Faiza and Ali Mardub, expressed their sorrow over the death of their baby, whom they had named Bana Hiba. The father carried his daughter, wrapped in a white shroud, to her grave in the village's Muslim cemetery and recited prayers. The grave was covered with sage leaves and flowers. Mourners - only men attended the funeral - said they hoped lessons would be learned and accounts taken by hospital doctors. Hospital director Dr. Mas'ud Barhood expressed his sorrow over the sad case and sent his condolences to the family.

The survival of such an immature baby, whether she was in an incubator or a cooler in the morgue, was very unlikely, said Eidelman. "It was a borderline case," he said, adding that she almost inevitably would have suffered from severe disability if she had lived.

Eidelman said that at Shaare Zedek, doctors know they must leave such immature infants in the delivery room for at least 20 minutes to try to detect a heartbeat and respiration.

"A fetus develops a heartbeat only around the 16th week, so at 23 weeks it is still very slow. Five minutes or more can pass before such a premature baby's heart beats or [it] takes a breath. After 20 minutes without such a sign of life, doctors let nature take its course, and the baby is presumed dead and taken to the morgue.

But she didn't die in the morgue and then didn't spontaneously come back to life," he said with assurance.

"This is nonsense. There was no miracle. Putting a live miscarried fetus in the cooler slows down the metabolism, so it remains in suspended animation. In fact, there is now a new treatment for viable premature babies to put them in a cooler to perpetuate this suspended animation and protect the brain from damage," said Eidelman. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218710399820&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
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Orleander · Aug 20, 2008

Yeah, I thought of you MadAnt when I read that last night. "Oh no, Mad Ant's miracle baby has died"
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