The man in Siberia was in a state of “extreme hypothermia” and described as a “human icicle” after six hours in subzero temperatures. Doctors who saved the man - called 'Unknown No 10’ when he was admitted to Krasnoyarsk regional hospital - say his survival is a “medical miracle”. Resuscitator Dmitry Mitsukov: “The patient was icy to the touch.
“Snowflakes did not melt on his face.
“His peripheral pulse could not be felt, only the faintest traces with a stethoscope.”
Nurse Irina Rymsha said: “It was impossible to imagine that this man could survive, but we did everything to try and save him.”
A mobile heat gun was used to warm his body which led to a ventricular fibrillation of the heart.
“Fibrillation is a circulatory arrest, a condition that very quickly leads to the death of the patient,” said a hospital source.
The doctors started resuscitation - indirect heart massage and defibrillation.
A stopped heart cannot be restarted with defibrillation, said the hospital.
A powerful electric shock of 5000 volts is only effective in a quivering heart, as in this case - and it happened 24 times, says the hospital.
Doctors who saved the man say his survival is a “medical miracle” (Image: East2West)
“The current does not restart a
