Clinical Death in Patients Surviving a Heart Attack

Clinical death is defined as the period of seeming unconsciousness caused by a total lack of oxygen in the brain, or a noxia because of the arrest of circulation and breathing. If in this situation, no resuscitation is initiated, within five to ten minutes, the brain cells will be irreversibly damaged, and the patient will always die. The dutch prospective study on endy es in survivors of cardiac arrest was first published in 19 88. Of these patients, forty one patients, or 12 %, had a corps experience with a score of six or higher. And all well know elements were reported, like awareness of being dead, positive emotions, an out of body experience, moving through