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Show Sister of Resident "Revived" By Heart Massage Mrs. Fred LaFrentz of Cedar City was notified this week of a most unusual heart operation that is said to have brought her sister back from death itself. According to word received by Mrs. LaFrentz through newspaper newspap-er clippings and telephone conversations, con-versations, her sister, Mrs. Rus sell Goodall of Davenport, Iowa, "died" once but was brought back to life when a doctor made a quick chest incision and mas-. mas-. saged her heart. However, the last word received by Mrs. LaFrentz La-Frentz Indicated that her sister was still in a very critical condition. condi-tion. According to the published reports re-ports Mrs. Goodall had undergone under-gone major surgery on Mar. 21, and after complications had developed de-veloped again submitted to surgery sur-gery on Mar. 28. Shortly after returning to her room at the hospital hos-pital her heart suddenly stopped beating. Her doctor, after failing to revive her by artificial respiration, respira-tion, made an incision In the woman's wo-man's chest wall, reached In and began to massage the heart with his hand. Meanwhile a tube was put in the patient's trachea for the purpose of ventilating the lungs. About 30 or 40 seconds after the massage was staited, it was reported the heart responded. There was no bleeding when the massaging started, but as the heart responded and began to work properly, bleeding started and was controlled. The chest was- closed and artificial respiration respi-ration was continued until the patient's own respiratory mechanism mech-anism took over. The patient recovered re-covered consciousness about three and one half hours later. Mrs. Goodall Is 44 years of age, according to Mrs. LaFrentz. |