An avalanche victim in Austria was clinically dead — and then resuscitated. Rhianna Shaw, 23, was entombed in the snow for 15 minutes following a slide in the backcountry near St. Anton. Incredibly Shaw remembers being buried alive, being unable to move, screaming for help and then blacking out. She didn’t have a beacon, but her friends formed a human chain and, in an ever-widening circle probed until they found the back of Shaw’s leg and dug her out. Shaw was clinically dead, with no pulse, but one of her friends gave her CPR – and against the odds, it worked. Now, after a week in the hospital, she appears to have no neurological damage. Via IOL News.

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