2026年7月8日 美国东部时间7:32 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
据近日公开的警方记录显示，今年2月在菲尼克斯郊区一处后院泳池中被发现的一名幼儿，在被宣告死亡数小时后，竟在医院停尸房内被发现尚有呼吸。
文件显示，两名吉尔伯特市警员曾多次发现该儿童有生命体征迹象，但医护人员对其进行治疗后，仍将其送往了医院的“冷柜间”。
报告显示，阿里扬·图西医生曾对一名警员说道：“你干你的活，我干我的活。我读医学院是有原因的。”
当地时间2月8日下午5点30分左右，急救人员接到溺水报警后赶往该住宅。他们对儿童实施了急救措施，随后将其送往医院，并于约一小时后宣告其死亡。
据菲尼克斯KPNX电视台获取的一名警员随身摄像头录像显示，该医生曾说道：“如果没人反对，我想宣布死亡时间了。死亡时间为18点20分。默哀片刻。”
约五小时后，警方接到通知称该儿童确实尚有呼吸，随后被转往另一所医院。这名男童最终脱离危险并已出院。
吉尔伯特警方建议对幼儿父母提起过失致人死亡指控。调查人员称，住宅内有浓烈的大麻气味，且房门敞开，导致无人看管的儿童有可能进入泳池。马里科帕县检察官办公室表示目前正在审查此案，周一拒绝进一步置评。
在911报警电话中，两名亲属 frantic 地报告幼儿已被从泳池中救出，现场可听到众人尖叫。一名报警人称这名幼儿已经失去意识。
周一美联社摄影师敲门时，发生此次险些溺亡事件的住宅无人应答。
接收这名18个月大男童的梅西吉尔伯特医疗中心在一份声明中表示，医院已对所提供的所有护理环节进行了“全面审查，以查明事件原委，并做出有意义的改进，以强化我们的护理质量”。
该医院称这是“令人心碎的事件”，并拒绝透露更多细节。
警方称，当当地法医办公室的工作组抵达所谓的冷柜间时，发现这名男童尚有呼吸，随即紧急将其转往另一所医院。
图西医生的律师斯科特·霍尔登告诉美联社，他不会代表医生发表完整声明，“只想向大家保证，无论从事实层面还是医学层面，本案都远比目前已报道的内容复杂得多”。
今年2月为帮助该男童家庭支付医疗费用而创建的GoFundMe众筹页面显示，这名幼儿名叫文森特·洛伦佐·菲奥迪利诺，后续需要接受大量治疗。
页面写道：“感谢大家为小文森特的祈祷、善意与支持——我们的奇迹斗士。”
该众筹页面已筹集约2万美元，其中提到“医生正循序渐进地开展治疗，让文森特的身体决定康复的节奏”。
菲尼克斯ABC附属电视台KNXV-TV是首个报道该事件的媒体。
2026年7月6日摄于亚利桑那州吉尔伯特市，警方近日公开的记录显示，一名今年2月在自家后院泳池中被发现的18个月大男童，被送往医院后宣告死亡，数小时后却在医院停尸房被发现仍在世。美联社照片/罗斯·D·富兰克林
此前类似案件
此前也曾发生多起被宣告死亡后被发现仍在世的案件。
2024年，内布拉斯加州一家养老院一名74岁女性被宣告死亡后，两小时后在殡仪馆被发现尚有呼吸。2023年，艾奥瓦州一名66岁女性在养老院被宣告死亡后，在殡仪馆被发现仍“大口喘气”。
2020年，密歇根州绍斯菲尔德市一名患有脑瘫的20岁女子蒂姆莎·比彻姆，被一名医生通过电话宣告死亡。此前城市急救人员曾接到她家的911报警电话。
当天晚些时候，一家殡仪馆打开尸袋时发现比彻姆仍在喘气。她被迅速送往医院，但未能康复，两个月后去世。绍斯菲尔德市向其家属支付了325万美元，了结了这起过失诉讼。
未参与本案的旧金山法医病理学家朱迪·梅琳克表示，被误判死亡后被发现仍在世的案例虽属罕见，但确实存在。“这类情况在老年人中比在儿童或幼儿中更为常见，”她说道。
“死亡判定标准要求无心跳、无呼吸，且无脑活动或神经活动，”梅琳克说。她补充道，有时患者呼吸非常微弱或间歇性呼吸，医护人员需要等待数分钟后才能作出死亡宣告。
梅琳克指出，死亡判定取决于医生的技能和培训水平，各医院的政策也可能存在差异。“要么是涉事人员缺乏经验，要么是制度存在漏洞，”她说，“因为人一旦死亡，就不可能复活——这种情况绝不会发生。”
Arizona toddler declared dead after pool accident is found alive in hospital morgue
July 8, 2026 7:32 AM EDT / CBS/AP
A toddler discovered in a backyard pool in a Phoenix suburb in February was declared dead before being found breathing hours later in a room that serves as the hospital morgue, according to recently released police records.
Two Gilbert police officers saw possible signs of life multiple times, but the child was still taken to the hospital’s “cold room” after being treated by staff, according to the documents.
“Please do your thing and let me do my thing,” Dr. Aryan Toosi told an officer at one point, according to the report. “I went to medical school for a reason.”
First responders were dispatched to the home at about 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 8 in response to a reported drowning. They performed life-saving measures on the child before taking him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.
“If there’s no objections, I’d like to call time of death,” the doctor said, according to a police officer’s bodycam video obtained by KPNX-TV in Phoenix. “Time of death 18:20. Moment of silence.”
About five hours later, police were notified that the child was indeed breathing, and he was flown to another hospital. The boy ultimately survived and has been released.
Gilbert police are recommending negligence charges against the parents. Investigators said there was a strong odor of marijuana at the home and open doors that could have allowed unsupervised access to the pool. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said it was reviewing the case and declined further comment Monday.
In 911 calls, two relatives frantically reported that the child had been pulled from the pool as people at the scene could be heard shrieking. One caller reported the toddler was unconscious.
No one answered at the home where the near-drowning occurred when an Associated Press photographer knocked on Monday.
Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, where the 18-month-old was taken, said in a statement that the hospital conducted “a thorough review of all aspects of the care provided to learn what happened and to make meaningful changes to strengthen our care.”
The hospital called it “a heartbreaking situation” and declined to release further details.
When a team from the local medical examiner’s office arrived in the so-called cold room, they found the boy breathing and rushed him to another hospital, police said.
Scott Holden, an attorney for Toosi, told the AP that he wouldn’t make a full statement on behalf of the doctor “other than to assure you that there is much more to this case, both factually and medically, than has been reported thus far.”
A GoFundMe page, which was created in February to help the boy’s family with medical bills, identified the toddler as Vincent Lorenzo Fiordilino and said he would need extensive therapy.
“Thank you for your prayers, your kindness, and your support for baby Vincent – our miracle fighter,” the page says.
According to the GoFundMe, which has raised about $20,000, “doctors are taking things slowly, allowing Vincent’s body to guide the pace of his recovery.”
An ABC affiliate in Phoenix, KNXV-TV, was the first to report the story.
A home where an 18-month-old toddler discovered in a backyard pool in February, was taken to the hospital, declared dead before being found breathing hours later in a room that serves as the hospital morgue, according to recently released police records, July 6, 2026, in Gilbert, Ariz. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin
Prior similar cases
There have been other cases of people discovered alive after being declared dead.
In 2024, a 74-year-old woman who was pronounced dead at a Nebraska nursing home was found breathing at a funeral home two hours later. In 2023, a 66-year-old woman was found alive and “gasping for air” in a funeral home after being pronounced dead at an Iowa nursing home.
In Southfield, Michigan, Timesha Beauchamp, a 20-year-old with cerebral palsy, was declared dead by a doctor over the phone in 2020. City paramedics had responded to a 911 call at her family’s home.
Later that day, a funeral home opened the body bag and found Beauchamp gasping for air. She was swiftly taken to a hospital but never recovered and died two months later. Southfield settled a negligence lawsuit filed by the family for $3.25 million.
Cases in which someone is mistakenly declared dead and later found to be alive are rare, but they do happen, said Dr. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist in San Francisco who is not associated with the case. “It tends to be much more common in elderly people than in children or toddlers,” she said.
“The criteria of death require no heartbeat, no breathing, and no brain activity or neurologic activity,” Melinek said. There were times when people were breathing very shallowly or intermittently, so medical practitioners had to wait a few minutes before the declaration, she added.
According to Melinek, determining death depends on a doctor’s skill and training, and policies may differ from hospital to hospital. “It’s either someone inexperienced got involved or a policy failure,” she said, “because people, once they’re dead, they don’t come back to life – that doesn’t happen.”