<div><p>Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro walked into Boca Raton Regional Hospital for a cesarean section and very nearly didn't walk back out. </p><p>The 40-year-old Florida woman successfully delivered a healthy baby girl. The delivery was uneventful by all standards. Joy quickly turned to dread as Graupera-Cassimiro began to experience shortness of breath, then suddenly stopped breathing. </p><p>Doctors and nurses leapt into action as a controlled chaos descended upon Graupera-Cassimiro's room. Doctors called a code and began the exhausting battle against time to save her life. </p><p>The woman who had just held her newborn daughter, was now lying on a table as doctors fought for to restart her heart. For 45 minutes, she had no pulse. </p><div><figure><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/woman-survives-ill-effects-45-minutes-pulse/story?id=26808212" target="_blank"><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/ht_Ruby_Graupera_Cassimiro_wy_141110_4x3_992.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/ht_Ruby_Graupera_Cassimiro_wy_141110_4x3_992_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/ht_Ruby_Graupera_Cassimiro_wy_141110_4x3_992_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/ht_Ruby_Graupera_Cassimiro_wy_141110_4x3_992_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/ht_Ruby_Graupera_Cassimiro_wy_141110_4x3_992_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/ht_Ruby_Graupera_Cassimiro_wy_141110_4x3_992_GH_content_950px.jpg 950w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></a><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/woman-survives-ill-effects-45-minutes-pulse/story?id=26808212" target="_blank">ABC News</a></cite></figcaption></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>Doctors were terrified when they realized that her heart was beating a pulseless rhythm: her heart was beating but not pumping any blood throughout her body. </p><p>They delivered continuous CPR compressions for 45 minutes straight to encourage her heart to work properly. </p><p>But, after two hours, he doctors began to believe that there was no hope for her. They believed that she had experienced a highly-fatal <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/lifestyle/health/mayo-clinic.htm">amniotic fluid embolism</a>. It happens after delivery, when amnoiotic fluid leaks into the blood stream causing blood clots and cardiac arrest.</p><div><figure><a href="https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjK3bnLnNnTAhUD9GMKHYeTAbEQjhwIBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FHealth%2Fruby-graupera-cassimiro-heart-stopped-45-minutes%2Fstory%3Fid%3D26819365&psig=AFQjCNGmGmczvhNHpdi2bwPVFP1uuQaT3A&ust=1494089077358123" target="_blank"><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/ht_Ruby_Graupera_Cassimiro_2wy_141110_4x3_992.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/ht_Ruby_Graupera_Cassimiro_2wy_141110_4x3_992_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/ht_Ruby_Graupera_Cassimiro_2wy_141110_4x3_992_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/ht_Ruby_Graupera_Cassimiro_2wy_141110_4x3_992_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/ht_Ruby_Graupera_Cassimiro_2wy_141110_4x3_992_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/ht_Ruby_Graupera_Cassimiro_2wy_141110_4x3_992_GH_content_950px.jpg 950w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></a><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite><a href="https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjK3bnLnNnTAhUD9GMKHYeTAbEQjhwIBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FHealth%2Fruby-graupera-cassimiro-heart-stopped-45-minutes%2Fstory%3Fid%3D26819365&psig=AFQjCNGmGmczvhNHpdi2bwPVFP1uuQaT3A&ust=1494089077358123" target="_blank">ABC News</a></cite></figcaption></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>Doctors called her family into the room to say their final goodbyes then quietly ushered them out again. A few nurses stepped into the waiting room with her extended family and frantically began to pray on their knees for her life. </p><p>Her doctor was seconds away from turning off her ventilator when a nurse saw something that made her shout "Stop!"</p><p>Without medical intervention, Graupera-Cassimiro's heart spontaneously started to beat on its own for the first time in two hours!</p><p>Doctors were astounded, this kind of thing almost never happens! Dr. Knurr told Reader's Digest, "usually the patient passes away or has significant brain damage." "It's a miracle. I'm not a highly religious person, but you just don't see this happen." </p><div><figure><a href="https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi9-Y7sndnTAhWG6YMKHYTwAUwQjhwIBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FHealth%2Fwoman-survives-ill-effects-45-minutes-pulse%2Fstory%3Fid%3D26808212&psig=AFQjCNGmGmczvhNHpdi2bwPVFP1uuQaT3A&ust=1494089077358123" target="_blank"><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/GTY_45_min_no_pulse_ruby_sk_141110_16x9_992.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/GTY_45_min_no_pulse_ruby_sk_141110_16x9_992_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/GTY_45_min_no_pulse_ruby_sk_141110_16x9_992_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/GTY_45_min_no_pulse_ruby_sk_141110_16x9_992_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/GTY_45_min_no_pulse_ruby_sk_141110_16x9_992_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/05/GTY_45_min_no_pulse_ruby_sk_141110_16x9_992_GH_content_950px.jpg 950w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></a><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite><a href="https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi9-Y7sndnTAhWG6YMKHYTwAUwQjhwIBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FHealth%2Fwoman-survives-ill-effects-45-minutes-pulse%2Fstory%3Fid%3D26808212&psig=AFQjCNGmGmczvhNHpdi2bwPVFP1uuQaT3A&ust=1494089077358123" target="_blank">ABC News</a></cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>Graupera-Cassimiro didn't just come back to life, she walked out of that hospital in perfect health. </p><p>"Someone else was running the show that day; there's no doubt in my mind," Ruby says, "I don't know why God chose me, but I know he gave me this life again for a reason."</p><p>[h/t <a href="http://www.rd.com/true-stories/inspiring/medical-miracles/" target="_blank">Reader's Digest</a> / <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/woman-survives-ill-effects-45-minutes-pulse/story?id=26808212" target="_blank">ABC News</a>]</p><p></p></div>