Boy pronounced dead comes back to life.

[Charlie P]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5085797/?GT1=3391

BOISE, Idaho - A hospital worker preparing a 22-month-old for a funeral home noticed the boy was breathing "” more than an hour after he had been pronounced dead from drowning.

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Logan Pinto apparently wandered away from his baby sitter Thursday and fell into a canal near his home in Rexburg, about 275 miles east of Boise. He was submerged for nearly 30 minutes before police found him a half-mile downstream, said Rexburg police Capt. Randy Lewis.

Though an officer gave him CPR and emergency workers did everything they could to revive him, Lewis said, the boy was pronounced dead when it appeared the effort had failed. After giving the boy"™s mother and stepfather "” Debra and Joe Gould "” some time to say goodbye, Madison Memorial Hospital nurse Mary Zollinger began to prepare Logan"™s body for the funeral home.

But when she looked at the boy, she noticed his chest was slightly moving and realized that Logan was alive.

The boy was flown to Primary Children"™s Medical Center in Salt Lake City, where he was listed in critical condition Friday. Late Thursday, he was breathing on his own and his color had returned, but he was placed back on a respirator Friday, Lewis said


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[hntngirl]

Wow. What a roller-coaster for his parents. I hope that he can recover without damage to his brain....it happens sometimes. Kids can be very resilient.

[Red Hawk]

That is one lucky boy. I think the paramedics should have known better but i guess its only human to make an error no matter how professional or medicaly-trained people are.

[fng]

do the parents have to give all the condolence food back ?

[hntngirl]

fng, you are so bad.

[Coastie]

ORIGINAL: Red Hawk

That is one lucky boy. I think the paramedics should have known better but i guess its only human to make an error no matter how professional or medicaly-trained people are.

The paramedics? They cannot pronounce a person dead, that takes a Doctor. The problem is, with (I believe this is the correct term) Human mamalian response, it is very difficult to tell if the individual is alive or not, the heart rate drops to almost zero and respirations are shallow and infrequent. It is most often seen in very young children such as in this instance, and has not been adequately explained. It also is more frequent when the victim has been exposed to very cold conditions, yet can occur under other circumstances as well. This was first recognized back in the eighties,I believe, and our first aid course in the CG were updated at that time to help us recognize the existance of the phenomonem and encourage us to begin CPR, especially on young children, even when all common sense dictated one should do otherwise. I hope this kid makes it with no brain damage.

[Red Hawk]

My bad, i did a typo there lol