Baby declared dead leaves the ICU in Bauru is extubated and is already breathing without the help of equipment Personal archive Baby Noah Gabriel da Cruz Santos, declared dead and found alive by a funeral director in Rio Claro (SP), left the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Hospital das Clínicas in Bauru (SP), was extubated and is already breathing without the help of equipment. The information was confirmed to TV TEM this Friday (31) by Noah's mother, Letícia Cristina da Cruz Santos. The baby is hospitalized at Centrinho, a unit specialized in craniofacial anomalies linked to the Hospital das Clínicas de Bauru and the University of São Paulo (USP). ? Join the g1 Bauru and Marília channel on WhatsApp "It's great, to the honor and glory of the Lord Jesus. He's already doing great. Now he's started wearing clothes, he's out of the warm crib and is still under observation," said the mother. Outside the ICU, the baby has also received visitors. Leticia's other son, Noah's brother, met the youngest. The boy's aunt also went to visit the newborn. Brother and aunt visit Noah, pronounced dead after cardiac arrest, during recovery in Bauru Personal archive Understand the case Noah was sent to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (ICU) shortly after birth, on June 15. He was awaiting transfer to surgery at Centrinho, in Bauru, but suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest when he was one month old. Parents of baby Noah report the emotion of finding their son alive after five hours of mourning Santa Casa de Rio Claro reported that the cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers lasted around 45 minutes. After the attempts, death was confirmed at the end of the afternoon. The body remained in the Neonatal ICU for around an hour and was then sent to another sector, where it awaited removal by the funeral home. Baby Noah was pronounced dead in hospital, but showed vital signs again in Rio Claro (SP) Reproduction/EPTV About two hours after the death was confirmed, funeral director Regina Célia Paschoal went to collect the body and noticed that the boy had vital signs inside the burial bag. "I opened it and the baby started to move even more, it made a noise, he wanted to breathe", reported Regina. The newborn was reevaluated, readmitted to the Neonatal ICU and, days later, transferred to Bauru. The baby's mother, Letícia Cristina da Cruz Santos, said that she saw her son lifeless and purple in color, but exempted the hospital from negligence. "We are contemplating the greatness of God and admiring our warrior who continues to fight to be well. We believe in our miracle completely. Miracles cannot be explained, they are lived", he said. Funeral director Regina Célia Paschoal realized that the boy Noah was alive in a bag at a hospital in Rio Claro (SP) Wesley Almeida/EPTV What Santa Casa says Santa Casa de Rio Claro declared that all technical and legal protocols for confirming death were strictly complied with. The institution reported that it had not identified a care failure and classified the episode as an extraordinary event. The hospital's medical director, Marco Aurélio Mestrinel, stated that the team followed all protocols and that the devices showed the child's death. "We didn't find any justification for what could have happened," he said. The case is analyzed by the institution's ethics committee. What do the experts say? In an interview with Fantástico, the medical manager of Hospital Infantil Sabará, Nelson Horigoshi, explained that similar situations are extremely rare and usually involve adults or the elderly. One of the hypotheses described in the medical literature is Lazarus syndrome, characterized by the spontaneous return of circulation after the interruption of resuscitation maneuvers. However, the expert highlights that Noah's case is outside the norm. "Normally it takes minutes. More or less 70% of people who return return within five minutes. Look how exceptional this child's case is. We're talking about hours," said Horigoshi.