A British woman has made a full recovery after suffering a six-hour cardiac arrest caused by severe hypothermia
-- a condition that doctors say also saved her life.Thirty four-year-old Audrey Schoeman was caught in a snowstorm while hiking in the Pyrenees mountain range in Spain on November 3, and her husband Rohan called the emergency services when she passed out, according to a statement from Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona."I thought she was dead," Rohan said in an interview with local broadcaster TV3."I was trying to feel for a pulse...
Schoeman's body temperature had dropped to 18 degrees Celsius -- far lower than the normal 36.5--37.5 degrees Celsius -- and the hospital team used an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine to keep her alive.ECMO replaces the function of the heart and lungs, allowing doctors to oxygenate Schoeman's blood and pump it round the body.
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