Student wakes up after remaining 'dead for 25 minutes' due to extreme sunburn

A British university student "died for 25 minutes" and then woke up in a miraculous event.

The student was suffering from severe sunburn and while treating it, the doctors were able to discover an undetected heart condition.

The student, identified as Charlie Vincent, was working as a canoeing teacher in a summer camp being held in New Hampshire, United States.

During the summer camp, the sun exposure led to second-degree burns on his legs. The 20-year-old boy was then taken to the hospital by the camp leaders where it was discovered that he also had pneumonia patches on his lungs.

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Charlie, who was pursuing film studies at De Montford University in Leicester, was operated on for a respiratory infection,however, his family informed that during surgery he suffered a cardiac arrest as well as a mini-stroke and his heart stopped for nearly 25 minutes.

The 24-year-old sister of Charlie, Emily, said that doctors found Charlie had an enlarged heart, which is also called cardiomegaly, and this forces the heart to work harder than normal.

Doctors call the boy's survival a ‘miracle’ recovery

The doctors said that the boy is likely to have had the condition since his birth, however, it took "something like a respiratory infection" for it to present itself.

The boy spent nearly a week in induced coma and the doctors suspected that he may require an urgent organ transplant for his both kidneys and heart.

However, after a ‘miracle’ recovery, the boy is not likely to need such an organ transplant but he may still require a heart transplant at a "much later date", Emily said.

Charlie, who is from Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, flew back to the UK along with his parents and is now recovering at Northampton General Hospital, which is closer to home.

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Meanwhile, Emily, who lived in the UK while her parents updated her about her brother's health, at one point feared that he would die.

Speaking before the return of the family to the UK, Emily said, "It was absolutely heartbreaking, it was hell."

"It’s definitely a miracle that he’s still here, I think the hospital he has been in has given him the most amazing care and without that, I don’t think he would have made it," she added.