Doctors in Barcelona have managed to revive a British woman who had a six-hour cardiac arrest after developing hypothermia while hiking in the Catalan Pyrenees in freezing weather last month. “We couldn’t find any vital signs and we did what we could using pre-hospital techniques.”By that point, Mash had severe hypothermia and her body temperature had fallen to just 18C; normal body temperature is 37C. But by 9.45pm, Mash’s body temperature had risen to 30C and the doctors tried again to revive her, using a defibrillator. If she’d been in cardiac arrest for that long with a normal body temperature, we’d have been certifying her death. Mash, who is 34, spent six days in the intensive care unit, where doctors monitored her for signs of neurological damage.

Source: The Guardian December 05, 2019 18:52 UTC