An innocuous surgery turns deadly.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: A 17-year-old girl remains in critical condition, hovering on the verge of death days after going in for a routine dental procedure in Eden Praire, Minnesota.
Sydney Galleger went in last Tuesday in order to have her wisdom teeth removed, but near the end of the procedure she went into cardiac arrest, reported local CBS affiliate WCCO.
Her blood pressure suddenly shot up, her pulse dropped and she went into a cardiac arrest. The dentist frantically started performing CPR on the teen as emergency crews rushed to the scene, revealed the Daily Mail.
Over the next few days, Galleger’s health jumped and dipped sporadically from stable condition to critical, while her brain swelled and seizures ensued.
“She is in very critical condition and of course we are praying for a miracle but we also have to face the reality that the prognosis is not good,†her family wrote on her CaringBridge site.
Doctors harrowingly said that she meets nine of the 10 criteria required to be considered brain dead; the last vestige of her brain functions is that she is still able to breathe on her own.
“We want to rewind to Monday where we had our happy, healthy, funny, beautiful 17-year-old daughter … we can’t believe this same happy, healthy, funny, still beautiful daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, cousin, and friend is lying in that hospital bed, “wrote her mother. “We can’t comprehend it yet and not sure when we will.”
On Monday, family members updated her page, saying that although there had been reports that she had passed away over the weekend, she was still alive.
Family members said while they don’t know what exactly happened, according to WCCO, but it is possible she may have had an unknown heart condition.