just from what you wrote... the girl has massive brain damage. If something had been done in the intervening forty minutes, perhaps a large amount of that brain damage may have been averted.
Of course, I don't actually know the score on that one... but that fits your description of the situation and a strong urge on the part of the family to sue the doc who pronounced her dead, which led to a large chunk of time when there was no treatment leading to potentially very negative results for the baby.