Woman Who Survived Rare Disorder Throws Thank-you Party For Maine Hospital Staff That Saved Her

In the delivery room of the Mount Desert Island Hospital (MDI) in Bar Harbor, ME, Alisa Nye stopped breathing moments after giving birth to a beautiful baby girl. And then her heart stopped beating. For six intense minutes the on-duty obstetrics team raced to keep her alive, using chest compressions and a defibrillator. Her pulse returned, only to vanish. The staff did not yield. They used the defibrillator again and got a pulse; they intubated Nye to keep her breathing.

In the delivery room of the Mount Desert Island Hospital (MDI) in Bar Harbor, ME, Alisa Nye stopped breathing moments after giving birth to a beautiful baby girl. And then her heart stopped beating. For six intense minutes the on-duty obstetrics team raced to keep her alive, using chest compressions and a defibrillator. Her pulse returned, only to vanish. The staff did not yield. They used the defibrillator again and got a pulse; they intubated Nye to keep her breathing.…