56-Year-Old Man Brought Back To Life After 47 Minutes, 4,500 Chest Compressions

[Modbert]

And 8 Zaps With Defibrillator.

CBS 2 Exclusive: Back From The Dead - wcbstv.com

It took 4,500 chest compressions and eight shocks from a defibrillator to get Tiralosi stabilized at 11:55 a.m. While his doctors worked frantically to save him he barely remembers anything about that day.

CBS 2 HD: "Was there a time after 47 minutes in the room when someone said 'Guys, enough's enough. Time to end it'?

Dr. Gaudio: "There were whispers of that but I imagined that he was a man with a family, with a family someplace and I didn't want to go out and tell that family that we had lost him. I had to keep going."

A specific procedure helped save Tiralosi's life. Special cooling pads, not available in all emergency rooms, lowered his body temperature to 91 degrees, essential in preventing long-term neurological damage and preserving brain function. Placed in a medically induced coma, incredibly, he began to wake up three days later -- without brain damage.

Amazing.

 

[brewerboy]

Yeah. 99% of places probably would have called it 20 minutes in.

 

[xsited1]

Imagine having the job of counting the number of chest compressions...

 

[dilloduck]

Imagine having the job of counting the number of chest compressions...

I used to do that at the playboy mansion. Good gig !

 

[Xenophon]

Its nice to read some good news for a change.

 

[xotoxi]

Imagine having the job of counting the number of chest compressions...

I would rather be counting them than to be giving them...they are very tiring!

 

[JenyEliza]

I worked in hospitals years ago....especially in the ER. I've rarely seen a code go 47 minutes. They usually call it before then.

Very cool this guy was brought back..... bet this is his BEST Thanksgiving ever.

Well done, Doctor!

 

[JenyEliza]

Imagine having the job of counting the number of chest compressions...

I would rather be counting them than to be giving them...they are very tiring!

I coudln't do 47 minutes of chest compressions....even on my best day.

 

[B L Zeebub]

Imagine having the job of counting the number of chest compressions...

I would rather be counting them than to be giving them...they are very tiring!

I coudln't do 47 minutes of chest compressions....even on my best day.

how are you on the four fingered knuckle shuffle?

 

[B L Zeebub]

Its nice to read some good news for a change.

yes, I bet he is in glowing good health now.

 

[Zoom-boing]

Wow, what an amazing story. Kudos to the doc!

 

[JenyEliza]

I would rather be counting them than to be giving them...they are very tiring!

I coudln't do 47 minutes of chest compressions....even on my best day.

how are you on the four fingered knuckle shuffle?

Huh?