"Dead" man wakes up under autopsy knife

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CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.

Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.

"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.

His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor -- and alive.

Reuters could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.

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andylawcc

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lol, probably some VIP needed a face transplant STAT and just said, "ah, just declare that guy dead and gimme his face."
 

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Originally posted by: mh47g
If I was the one doing the autopsy I probably would've crapped myself.

For real.

I can't even imagine what went through their minds.
 

LordNoob

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They sometimes used to bury people with a string in the coffin attached to a bell above ground, just in case.
 
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This has happened a couple of times. I believe there are a couple of times it happened in the US too.
 

Acanthus

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There was a case of this locally where a kid drowned under the ice in the bay, was under for like 48 minutes or something and declared dead, and lived.
 

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Originally posted by: Acanthus
There was a case of this locally where a kid drowned under the ice in the bay, was under for like 48 minutes or something and declared dead, and lived.

That's the key word. When a body is exposed to frigid temperatures, its metabolic rate slows down to a crawl. People have been known to be revived after being underwater in freezing temperatures for an hour or more.

 

randomlinh

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Originally posted by: Newfie
Originally posted by: Acanthus
There was a case of this locally where a kid drowned under the ice in the bay, was under for like 48 minutes or something and declared dead, and lived.

That's the key word. When a body is exposed to frigid temperatures, its metabolic rate slows down to a crawl. People have been known to be revived after being underwater in freezing temperatures for an hour or more.

how do you not drown to death though?
 

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The freezing temperatures greatly slows down the process of cell death. Usually after the heart stops beating, brain death occurs in about ~5 minutes at normal body temperature. However, at freezing temperatures it occurs much, much later.

As long as you can get to somebody before brain death occurs, you can resuscitate them.