A Florida mother has made a miraculous recovery after going 45 minutes without a pulse.
Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro suffered complications after delivering her child by caesarean section.
A team of doctors worked on the woman for three hours after she endured a rare amniotic fluid embolism following the birth.
Remarkably, after doctor’s called the 40-year-old’s mother, husband and sister into the operating room to say there was nothing more they could do, Ruby’s heart began to beat again.
Sppkesman for Boca Raton hospital Thomas Chakurda said: "We had called a code that lasted for three hours. She essentially spontaneously resuscitated when we were about to call the time of death."
Despite the length of time she was without a pulse, Ms Graupera-Cassimiro suffered no brain damage and doctors have said she is "the picture of health".
Mr Chakurda added that the case was one of "divine providence".
