An Ohio man whose heart stopped beating and was declared dead for 45 minutes came back to life, according to ABC News.
Tony Yahle, a 37 year-old diesel mechanic from West Carrollton, Ohio was officially pronounced dead after medical staff at Kettering Medical Center attempts to resuscitate him failed WHIOTV.com reported.
"We looked at each other [and] we'd given him all the medicine we had in our code cart," Dr. Raja Nazir, Yahle's cardiologist told ABC News. "At some point, you have to call it off."
According to ABC News, when news of Yahle's death reached his son, Lawrence, ran down the hall to the hospital room where his father was laying and he took a hold of a side of his father's bed and proclaimed:
"Dad, you're not going to die today!"
Hospital staff then heard a minor heart beat and pulse once or twice a minute Yahle was alive, ABC News reported. Dr. Raja Nazir, his cardiologist at Kettering Medical Center, told ABC News it wasn't a regular heartbeat, but once or twice a minute, the monitor would pick up tiny electrical movements.
"When I looked at the electrical activity, I was surprised. I thought we'd better make another effort to revive him," Kettering cardiologist Dr. Nazir said. "Very slowly, the heart rate was picking up."
Nazir then restored Yahle's blood pressure by squeezing one of his medicine bags.
"In the last 20 years, I've never seen anybody who we have pronounced dead ... and then for him to come back, I've never seen it," Dr. Nazir told the Dayton Daily News. "I'm calling it a miracle because I've never seen anything like it."
According to ABC News, Yahle will return to work on Monday. A heart biopsy may be done to find out more details about what occurred.
