Woman survives for 45 minutes without a pulse

Doctors in the US have been left baffled after a woman survived for 45 minutes without a pulse.

Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro, 40, was undergoing a routine caesarean at the Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida when she suffered an amniotic fluid embolism.

Medical teams worked tirelessly to try and revive the new mother but after recording no pulse for 45 minutes they called in her family and told them to say goodbye.

It was at that moment, with her family gathered around her and doctors preparing to pronounce her death that a blip sounded on Ms Graupera-Cassimiro's monitor indicating a heartbeat.

"She essentially spontaneously resuscitated when we were about to call the time of death," hospital spokesman Thomas Chakurda told WPTV.

Despite going 45 minutes with a pulse, Ms Graupera-Cassimiro did not suffer any brain damage.

"There's very few thngs in medicine that I've seen, working in the trauma centre myself and doing all the things that I do, that really were either unexplainable or miraculous," Dr Anthony Dardano, the president of the hospital's medical staff said.

"When I heard this story, that was the first thing that came to my mind."

But Ms Graupera-Cassimiro, who named her little girl Taily, said she knows why she pulled through: "God had the right people in the right place."