A woman who went out without sufficient oxygen for 10 hours after suffering a cardiac arrest was left with a brain injury but has made a full recovery.<br /><br />Hannah McGarvey, 28, began to feel "chesty" in November 2023 and started coughing up phlegm.<br /><br />On Friday 3, 2023, Hannah fell asleep on the sofa at around midnight and while asleep went into cardiac arrest. <br /><br />The following morning at 10am, Hannah's mum, Helen, 59, came home after her daughter in law called her and found her unresponsive - performing CPR until the ambulance arrived.<br /><br />Hannah was blue-lighted to Causeway Hospital, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, where medics performed a CT scan which showed nothing abnormal.<br /><br />She was then transported to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, where she had multiple MRI scans and an EEG - to record brain activity.<br /><br />The results showed Hannah had a hypoxic brain injury - which usually forms due to a restriction on the oxygen being supplied to the brain.<br /><br />Doctors told Hannah's family they had done everything they could and they should say their goodbye's<br /><br />Once they turned the ventilator off, Hannah miraculously regained consciousness and went from "strength to strength" and was back up walking within a week.
