A Swedish doctor spent 80 minutes trapped beneath river ice. Months later, she returned to work after one of medicine's most extraordinary recoveries
- 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.
Sources: Times of India