Cancer patient wakes up in hospital after being pronounced dead

Staff at the clinic in Bordeaux, France, had already asked Paillard's family if they could turn her life support machine off, before she suddenly woke. Paillard fell into a coma after attending the clinic on Monday for a chemotherapy session. Doctors had encouraged Paillard's sons to turn off her life support after pronouncing her dead.

Paillard was eventually transferred to another wing of the clinic where staff noticed signs of brain activity, before Paillard suddenly woke from her coma.

'We were told that she had passed away, that ... she wouldn't come back,' stated son Sébastien Paillard.

'To think we were about to give permission to kill our mother," Mr Paillard told France's Sud Ouest newspaper.

'It's a sort of miracle' said head of the Bordeaux Nord Polyclinic Yves Noël.

'One of the doctors who examined the patient has 25 years experience in casualty and identified all the signs of clinical death. Both doctors conferred with their colleagues,' he said.

The family is considering legal action against the hospital.


/Metro.co.uk/