Man Frozen in Snow For 14 Hours is Brought Back To Life – IOTW Report

Man Frozen in Snow For 14 Hours is Brought Back To Life

Wednesday, 20 January 2016, 21:30 BFH Uncategorized 15

NEWSER) – When Don Smith found his son, Justin, lying in a McAdoo, Pa., snowbank on Feb. 21, 2015, after Justin had tried to walk home from a bar the night before, it was a terrible sight. “I remember holding him,” the elder Smith said in tears Monday, per the Morning Call. “He was like a block of concrete.”

Justin Smith speaks at a press conference Monday.
Don says his son wasn’t breathing, lacked a pulse, and had limbs turned black from the cold. Doctors surmise Justin had slipped, hit his head, and blacked out, per CBS News, and he spent about 12 hours in the snow on a night that dipped to minus 4 degrees. Although ABC News says paramedics tried

to revive Justin with CPR, the Morning Call notes a coroner was called and a sheet drawn over the Penn State student’s head. But an ER doctor at Lehigh Valley Health Network didn’t give up: He persuaded doctors to try a life-saving procedure—and thanks to that procedure, Justin, 26, was on hand with his family Monday to thank those doctors for saving his life.

That procedure is called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and it involves taking blood out of a person’s body, warming it and pumping it with oxygen, then putting it back in. Dr. James Wu, the surgeon who did the procedure, says the freezing temps actually helped Justin.

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15 Comments on Man Frozen in Snow For 14 Hours is Brought Back To Life

  12. Let me see…guy walking home from the BAR, passes out in a snow bank, able to be revived. Think the “anti-freeze” he drank at the bar had anything to do with his REVIVAL? 🙂 🙂 🙂

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