Howard Snitzer

Howard Snitzer

In 2011, a 54-year-old man named Howard Snitzer became the first known person to survive a sudden cardiac arrest and remain neurologically intact after spending 96 minutes without a heartbeat. After he collapsed on a sidewalk suffering from a heart attack, more than 20 people took turns doing CPR and gave what could be the longest, successful out-of-hospital resuscitation ever.

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