Near-Death Experience: Survived a Heart Attack, Coma, and World Shutdown #shorts
24 Sept 2025

A first-person YouTube short recounting a near-death medical emergency in early 2020: the speaker suffered a massive heart attack and 'coded' for 48 minutes, received prolonged CPR, developed sepsis from a non-sterile cardiac assist device (impella), experienced respiratory failure requiring a ventilator, and was in a coma for 18 days. The impella damaged the mitral valve, necessitating open-heart surgery. The speaker reports the procedure occurred in early March 2020 and woke from the coma as the world was shutting down.
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