While teenagers survived 42 minutes in the water

Pictures ornamental canal in the city of Cuggiono where a teenager 14 years of diving with friends. - Photo: capolavoroitaliano.com

The story of the miracle that happened to a teenager in Milan, Italy, which survived despite being in the water for 42 minutes.

Teens whose name was kept secret, before it plays with her friends and jumping from wooden bridge into a canal located in the town of Cuggiono, west of Milan.

But when she failed to go back to shore, his colleagues immediately contacted the authorities to move the process find.

14-year-old boy was found at 5:32 pm, just 42 minutes after he jumped into the canal.

He was rushed to hospital where doctors use the procedure Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to save it. This procedure involves the use of artificial lungs outside the body to pump oxygenated blood to the body.

Teens may be discharged from the hospital 10 days later. But his right leg had to be amputated because of a problem with blood circulation.

Director of the Department of Anesthesia and Recovery in Hospital San Raffaela, Dr Alberto Zangrillo, praised the emergency measures taken when the paramedics attendant in the ambulance headed to a hospital.

"It is the most important stage in determining whether adolescents could be saved or not," said Dr Zangrillo.