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Article: COACH WAS ESSENTIALLY DEAD FOR 40 MINUTES UW HOSPITAL DOCTOR MARVELS AT HIS ASTONISHING SURVIVAL.(FRONT)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- March 23, 2004
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Byline: Jenny Price Associated Press
Two weeks into his recovery from a double-lung transplant, Marquette assistant men's basketball coach Trey Schwab went into cardiac arrest and was essentially dead for 40 minutes after a massive clot developed in his lungs.
On Monday, three weeks after doctors kept his pulse going through CPR before removing the clot during an emergency operation, Schwab got the green light to leave the hospital.
"Obviously there's something bigger than all of us at work here," Schwab said Monday as he spoke with reporters at UW Hospital for the first time since both surgeries. "It's a shot at a second chance, and you just ...