A Swedish doctor spent 80 minutes trapped beneath river ice. Months later, she returned to work after one of medicine's most extraordinary recoveries
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Image(s): Left/Nine/Right/CanvaMost people who suffer cardiac arrest after prolonged submersion in icy water have little chance of survival.
Yet in one of the most remarkable medical recoveries ever recorded, Anna Bågenholm, a Swedish radiologist, survived after becoming trapped beneath a frozen river in Norway for 80 minutes, during which her heart stopped beating for more than an hour.
When rescuers finally pulled her from the water in May 1999, her body temperature had fallen to 13.7°C, one of the lowest ever recorded in a living adult.
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Image(s): Left/Nine/Right/CanvaMost people who suffer cardiac arrest after prolonged submersion in icy water have little chance of survival.
Yet in one of the most remarkable medical recoveries ever recorded, Anna Bågenholm, a Swedish radiologist, survived after becoming trapped beneath a frozen river in Norway for 80 minutes, during which her heart stopped beating for more than an hour.
When rescuers finally pulled her from the water in May 1999, her body temperature had fallen to 13.7°C, one of the lowest ever recorded in a living adult.