‘Dead for 20 minutes’: Michigan Man Brought Back to Life After Being Electrocuted at Work

A Michigan man is lucky to be alive after getting electrocuted, especially considering he was dead for 20 minutes before several shocks to his heart jolted him back to life. And after another jolt from the defibrillator, 20-year-old Michael Truitt came back. Truitt had been working with his stepdad at a home in Livonia when a metal ladder he was carrying touched a live electrical wire. He said he doesn’t remember anything past that, but the homeowner called 911 and started CPR. It took about four minutes for paramedics to arrive and they attempted to revive him with the defibrillator while en route to the hospital, but he never regained a heartbeat in the ambulance. Truitt was ‘dead’ for 20 minutes before being brought back to live thanks to a dedicated team at Beaumont Hospital. The only lasting injury Pruitt has from the ordeal is in his toes, where the voltage electricity exited through his body.


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