A 2-year-old survived being underwater for over an hour!

A 2-year-old survived being underwater for over an hour!

The resuscitation of a 2 1/2-year-old girl who was submerged in an icy creek for more than an hour is one of those rare cases that even the greatest scientists are unable to answer when they ask him: How?

Michelle Funk spent 66 minutes in the creek and this was reported as ''the longest documented submersion with an intact neurological outcome''.

It was also the first successful use of a heart-lung bypass machine to rewarm a child whose temperature had plunged in accidental hypothermia.

The technique, extracorporeal rewarming, involves warming the blood as it is pumped through the heart-lung machine used in open-heart surgery.

Typically, surgeons use it to restore normal body temperature after intentionally cooling patients down for operations.

In the emergency room, Dr. Bolte and technicians set up the bypass machine. When the child arrived, Dr. Bolte led a team in injecting warmed fluids into Michelle's veins and stomach. They squeezed warmed air through a tube into her lungs.

And to think that many might’ve thought that Dr. Bolte was crazy by then. He is now a true hero!

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