Pulse (Photo : Reuters)
Doctors were astonished in a 22-month-old boy's life and death story after he seemingly resurrected after several minutes without a pulse.
Gardell Martin from Pennsylvania had his lifeless body pulled from an ice-cold creek. The toddler was playing with his two brothers on March 11 when he accidentally fell and was swept away by the rapidly moving water current.
After losing sight of Gardell, the 7-year-old Greg ran to their house screaming and asking for help.
Rose Martin, the young boys' mother, searched their 5-acre property until realizing that Gardell might have fallen into the creek near their property.
The toddler's mother called 911 while her daughters tried to search for Gardell near the creek, according to Aleteia.
After a neighbor found the young boy caught up in a branch of the tree on the creek, an ambulance arrived.
The rescue crew tried to resuscitate Gardell for a continuous 101 minutes while he was transported via the ambulance, in a community hospital, inside a medical helicopter and at the Geisinger Medical Center's emergency room, where more than 30 nurses and doctors helped to revive the toddler.
The young boy's temperature was 20 degrees under the normal temp.
Dr. Frank Maffei, the director of the pediatric intensive care unit at the hospital, said that the hypothermia actually helped save the toddler's life, slowing down metabolism, according to CBS News.
The medical team was ordered to continue CPR while warming Gardell's body, after reaching 82 degrees, a pulse was detected.
"It's not only extraordinarily rare that we got the kid back, but what's even more extraordinary is the rate at which he recovered and the completeness of his recovery," said Maffei.
Rose, Gardell's mother, believed that it was a miracle from God.
