The Minnesota Woman Who Froze Solid Overnight — And The Medical Miracle That Saved Her Life
But actual numbers, representing an actual temperature that was warming.
A pulse became detectable.
Not by the usual means — the wrist pulse, the carotid pulse — but with equipment that could detect the electrical activity of the heart.
The rate was slow.
Reports put it at approximately 12 beats per minute.
A normal resting heart rate is 60 to 100 beats per minute.
Twelve beats per minute is not a heartbeat that sustains normal brain function or normal tissue perfusion.
Twelve beats per minute is barely a heartbeat at all.
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