Brazil 77-year-old María Berta Rodríguez suddenly woke up after being declared dead by medical staff.
Mrs. Rodríguez lives a fairly normal life. She has diabetes and has had heart surgery, but doctors say that is normal for a woman approaching 80.
Her son, Kiko García, said that in April, while eating breakfast, Ms. Rodríguez began sweating, feeling dizzy and her skin turned pale. "At first, we thought she had low blood sugar, but things quickly got worse and we had to call the Red Cross," he said.
When paramedics arrived, Ms. Rodríguez was unconscious, her lips lifeless. After measuring her blood pressure and vital signs, the emergency team declared her dead.
"My mother's body was very cold, she seemed dead, no life-saving measures were effective. At that moment, I understood very clearly that she had passed away," said García.
He and the paramedics picked Rodríguez up from the kitchen floor and carried her upstairs on a stretcher to put her to bed. But soon after, she began to move. "At first, my mother didn't show any signs, but then she started breathing and responding," García said.
The phenomenon of people sentenced to death suddenly "coming back to life" has happened a few times. Photo: Newsweek
Ms. Rodríguez was immediately taken to the hospital, where doctors concluded that she had experienced a syncope episode — the medical term for fainting or losing consciousness.
According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, this phenomenon occurs when the body does not pump enough blood to the brain. It can be caused by cardiovascular problems, a sudden drop in blood pressure, dehydration, and many other factors. Before fainting, the patient often feels dizzy, weak, and suddenly sweats. These symptoms are completely consistent with what Ms. Rodríguez experienced.
After a night in the hospital, she was sent home. García said his mother remembers nothing of the experience other than feeling dizzy and waking up in bed.
Since the incident, Rodríguez's memory is not as good as before, but she has been able to return to a normal life.
On February 7, a nursing home in New York declared an 82-year-old woman dead. She was later found alive. A similar incident occurred with a 66-year-old patient with dementia in Iowa. She was found barely alive when funeral home staff opened her body bag. According to experts, sedatives, certain neurotoxins, and low ambient temperatures can easily cause many people to be mistaken for dead.
Thuc Linh (According to Newsweek )
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