A woman who went out without sufficient oxygen for 10 hours after suffering a cardiac arrest was left with a brain injury but has made a full recovery.

Hannah McGarvey, 28, began to feel "chesty" in November 2023 and started coughing up phlegm.

On Friday 3, 2023, Hannah fell asleep on the sofa at around midnight and while asleep went into cardiac arrest.

The following morning at 10am, Hannah's mum, Helen, 59, came home after her daughter in law called her and found her unresponsive - performing CPR until the ambulance arrived.

Hannah was blue-lighted to Causeway Hospital, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, where medics performed a CT scan which showed nothing abnormal.

She was then transported to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, where she had multiple MRI scans and an EEG - to record brain activity.

The results showed Hannah had a hypoxic brain injury - which usually forms due to a restriction on the oxygen being supplied to the brain.

Doctors told Hannah's family they had done everything they could and they should say their goodbye's

Once they turned the ventilator off, Hannah miraculously regained consciousness and went from "strength to strength" and was back up walking within a week.