BLACKFOOT — A toddler survived after his heart stopped beating for 14 minutes in 1966, and now his sister is sharing more details about her brother’s life.

The story on Layne Tanner was featured in our weekly Looking Back column, which looks back on what life was like during different periods in east Idaho history.

Heart stops beating

Layne Tanner, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Tanner, was at Bingham Memorial Hospital for a tonsillectomy in October 1966. It was while he was receiving the anesthetic and being prepared for the surgery that the anesthetist realized the boy’s heart had stopped beating.

“For 14 tense minutes, a team of doctors and surgical nurses kept blood circulating while first attempting to restart the heart by external massage,” the Idaho Falls Post Register wrote.

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