Doctor Who Brings Dead Patients Back to Life
- 11 years ago
A doctor brings the dead back to life.
A doctor in New York has a remarkable success rate resurrecting people with no pulse, even after several hours, allowing them many years of life ahead.
Doctor Sam Parnia has published a book called The Lazarus Effect that highlights his specialty in resurrecting patients using certain medical practices.
At the Stony Brook University Hospital Intensive Care Unit where Parnia works, patients have a 33 percent chance of surviving cardiac arrest, compared with an estimated 16 percent chance of survival at an average American or British hospital.
We are familiar with the widely used CPR method, but Dr. Parnia believes this is inconsistently applied. His method is to cool the body temperature to preserve brain cells, and circulate the blood through an oxygenating machine buying doctor’s time to address the cause of death.
CPR is a combination of mouth to mouth breathing, and chest compression that was developed in 1960, though both of the techniques had been used separately before.
CPR performed in hospitals has a widely varying success rate that ranges from 6 percent to 15 percent.
What do you think? Should everyone have resuscitation treatment when they have cardiac arrest or other possibly treatable conditions?
A doctor in New York has a remarkable success rate resurrecting people with no pulse, even after several hours, allowing them many years of life ahead.
Doctor Sam Parnia has published a book called The Lazarus Effect that highlights his specialty in resurrecting patients using certain medical practices.
At the Stony Brook University Hospital Intensive Care Unit where Parnia works, patients have a 33 percent chance of surviving cardiac arrest, compared with an estimated 16 percent chance of survival at an average American or British hospital.
We are familiar with the widely used CPR method, but Dr. Parnia believes this is inconsistently applied. His method is to cool the body temperature to preserve brain cells, and circulate the blood through an oxygenating machine buying doctor’s time to address the cause of death.
CPR is a combination of mouth to mouth breathing, and chest compression that was developed in 1960, though both of the techniques had been used separately before.
CPR performed in hospitals has a widely varying success rate that ranges from 6 percent to 15 percent.
What do you think? Should everyone have resuscitation treatment when they have cardiac arrest or other possibly treatable conditions?