r f yygy i y i byjenniferbrown v x romhifisesdoctdftand a respiratory merapist wolcedfcmy r vtke48yeafoldhwthefoffourwasiym r- v v vafvoh tfiepbld asphalt of a conconi parking lot ct frl f although the night before had been relatively mild about shehad beencfiiere fdrholirstfietresu in but when the paramedics- attempt avari overdosed alii arrivedthe womans jowmoans gave them hope i sat on the seat ihsidethe vanr j x u when aye arrived pri the scene she wasnt responding to the womans family had reported her rrussinv36houre anyfg andonly barely fopainful sttriiuli recami belforethey told police she had attempted overdoses beisaaauaavju three montris onthe job but had always been discovered before it was too latav- when he took the call i by the time paramedics arrived at the parkuiglot and she wasnt unconscious at that point but we knew right transported me woman toydrk central hospital at 730 am away the person wasextremely hypothermic stie was oct 13 she was dead i moanmg the entire 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hospital the paramedics pulled over to the- sidebf major mackenzie drive usbonie and his partner pat tried to defibrillate the woman y but couldnt 5 dr david wortzman york centrals chief ofemergency had just come on shift and at 745 am the ambulance arrived with the woman jvho still had no pulse w in 15 years ive never seen af ease of hypothermia arrest i like this said wortzman she looked dead her face was blue her pupils were fixed and the monitor was flatlined at that point survival is less than one per cent v v we couldnt get her temperature right away but the old saying in emergency medicine is you cant declare until they are warm and dead said wortzman explaining that the body must be warmed to 32 c before declaring someone r dead according to internist dr john blakely who arrivedjon the scene shortly after the woman was brought in if the 6rain is xold beforeyou die therefis a better chancepf resuscitation 1 t wortzman- blakely and the emergency staff began to gradually warm the womans bohy her stomach and blad- der were flushed with warm fluids it took 45 minutes to just get a reading on her temperature y i i was doing it bytiie book even though i wasnt giving hera hope of survival wortzman said ifl hadnt heard the story from the paramedics about her moaning iwould have declared herwheh she came in she looked verydead wortzmah said no one was sure the warming techniques would work rv at orie point jrvheridoctprswere doubtful meirffdrts would succeedtke womans family was told she might not make it her 13yearold son was brought in to say goodbye we i assud sh wouldnt wake upvve assumed itwasa hopeless cause bufwe persistecl blakely saidr j eventually die warmirig techniques beganto work and wortzman got a temperature readingpf 26 carihouf intp jlheif efforts electrical activity finally pegari to showliip on die heartmohitoir jll 1 there wasan occasional blip so we shocked her and after t electrical rhythm and pulse wortzman sad v- y f it wouid several more hours before the womans tern- perature returned to ripmal v two weeks later feelmg she is so i grateful tojbealivethathedepressiori is gone after almost a decade of mental illness v i didnt feel happy for a long time i feel very blessed im really glad they didnt give up on me said the jvoman who asked to remain anonymous y i v overdosing had been a normal routine for the last four- y yearsbutidwaysdiditatmyhouseiputmyfanyto too much i reafiy am in disbelief jiist hearing what my fam- ilywentmroughtheyw s i- im verycalm now i was soavgryatgod little thing feltjsorenprmous to me but ifeel ilrf blessed bjom z againhe gavetme a lot of chances but this is incredible j r a pressure bruiseonher forehead and clot on her lung are die only remaining scars a result of lying on the ground for so longcj- 1 rv sc v t in 35 years of practice blakelysaid hes never seen a case v has revived patientewhd wererclinicaily wf c v- cua- ttn j jv there are amazing stones of kids who fell m cold water r and theif survival is quite markable he saditliey report thpccasional successful you dont ever dream of anything like this happening shes a major savwhat we did worked but it may have been pure luck -vx-