Some people can get to work, eat a meal or even run two miles in that amount of time.
Some can deliver a baby and save the newborn and its mother. That's what the staff at Shaw's hospital did Jan. 22 when they performed an emergency Cesarean section in less than nine minutes. Kathleen McClellan, Maternal-Child Care flight commander. And as soon as the knife broke the skin it took 90 seconds to get the baby out. The placenta is a baby's lifeline providing food, oxygen, and blood.