A 66-year-old garbage collector, who came back to life after being officially declared dead after a heart attack at the end of March in Seine-Saint-Denis, died this week, a medical source said on Friday.
“He died, as unfortunately almost all patients in anoxic coma”, told theAFP Professor Frédéric Adnet, head of the Samu of Seine-Saint-Denis, confirming information from Parisian .
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Very early in the morning of March 29, this man who worked at the Neuilly-sur-Marne agency, had a heart attack even before starting work, had reported last week to theAFP his employer, Sepur, a company specializing in the collection and sorting of waste.
A medical case called “Lazarus phenomenon”
Called, the Samu teams then performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on him for almost an hour, before noting his death.
But half an hour after the official declaration of death, the police noted signs of life on the patient. A Samu team, who returned to the scene, actually found that his heart was beating.
He was then transported to the intensive care unit at Montfermeil hospital. “in a desperate state”.
This extremely rare medical phenomenon is called “Lazarus Phenomenon” in reference to Lazarus of Bethany, resurrected by Christ in the Bible. Gold “in the phenomenon of Lazarus, we never really have a survivor”, explained Professor Adnet.
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