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Updated: 03:54 PM EDT
Child Pronounced Dead Shows Vital Signs
By REBECCA BOONE, AP

BOISE, Idaho (May 28) - A hospital worker preparing a drowned toddler for a funeral home noticed the boy was breathing - more than an hour after he had been pronounced dead.


Logan Pinto, who is 22 months old, apparently wandered away from his baby sitter Thursday and fell into a canal near his home in Rexburg, about 275 miles east of Boise. He was submerged for nearly 30 minutes before police found him a half-mile downstream, said Rexburg police Capt. Randy Lewis.

Though an officer gave him CPR and emergency workers did everything they could to revive him, Lewis said, the boy was pronounced dead when it appeared the effort had failed. After giving the boy's mother and stepfather - Debra and Joe Gould - some time to say goodbye, Madison Memorial Hospital nurse Mary Zollinger began to prepare Logan's body for the funeral home.

But when she looked at the boy, she noticed his chest was slightly moving and realized that Logan was alive.

The boy was flown to Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City, where he was listed in critical condition Friday. Late Thursday, he was breathing on his own and his color had returned, but he was placed back on a respirator Friday, Lewis said.

"I'm just amazed and overwhelmed with what took place," Lewis said. "They aggressively worked on him for quite a bit of time, and of course it's a bad situation when you have to let the parents know that their son has passed away."

But despair turned to joy when emergency workers learned the boy was alive.

"It's called divine intervention, I think. I was dumbfounded. I couldn't believe it hardly, especially after leaving there and seeing what had transpired," Lewis said. "I don't know how to explain it. It's joyous and relieving."

By Bobbie~moderatr on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 09:45 pm:

I have actually heard of this happening before. Some little girl in California just had this happen too. The EM's workers called her at the scene. Then they took her to the hospital. While she was laying there draped she started to move... It isn't uncommon for some on that drowns in cold water to come back to life as their body comes to room temperature. Same with being out in the cold once the bodies core temp comes up the heart beat rises. Which in the case of the little girl in California they are assuming her pulse was so faint they couldn't detect it so they pronounced her DOA.

By Emily7 on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 11:49 pm:

I read this tonight. I hope he makes it. I will include him in my prayers.

By Amecmom on Saturday, May 29, 2004 - 09:57 am:

Gee, with all the advanced medical technology we have, and the fact that this is a known phenomena, you would think they would have hooked the boy up to an EKG or some other machine that could detect the minute signs of life this boy must have had.

In the days before all the wonderful technology we have, I would have considered this a miracle. Now, I think it's a crime. If the doctors had done a thorough scan and found the boy to be alive, which they might have with the advanced diagnostic tools we have, then they could have intubated him and gotten oxygen to his brain sooner, thereby cutting the amount of brain damage this boy will surely suffer from being "dead" so long.

I hope he makes it. And I hope that despite the obvious negligence, he is fine.
Ame