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Resuscitation Specialist Sam Parnia of Medical University of New York at Stony Brook Center (USA) released the book The Lazarus Effect, which states that we could bring a lot more people back to life because it is only a matter of equipment and training. Before In total, let’s deal with the terms. Can a stop be considered hearts of death? From the point of view of medicine, the scientist writes, death is biological process, and from the point of view of the layman, this is the point after which no return. In society, it was believed that moments cardiac arrest and death coincide, but this is not so. In other words, a person who was brought back to life after death, strictly speaking, is not was dying. The main thing here is to have time to reverse the process of dying before of how too many cells will be damaged. Can say that after a cardiac arrest, each cell is waiting for its own small death. After eight hours, it is impossible to force the brain again work, but after four or even five hours the “corpse” succeeds to reanimate. Mr. Parnia considers the best methodology to be enjoyed in Japan and South Korea. It is called ECPR . CPRstands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, i.e. artificial respiration and indirect heart massage), and behind the letter E lies extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, ECMO). In a person who has survived cardiac arrest, circulation and blood is saturated with oxygen through a special the device is a membrane oxygenator. This allows you to return the “deceased” to life even seven hours after death. In the West, this technology still very rare. Mr. Parnia describes The ideal resuscitation process. First, the patient needs connect to the apparatus of closed heart massage and artificial breath as well as a device that tracks quality oxygen entering the brain. If at the same time the person is given the right preparations, but the oxygen content has not returned to normal, have to resort to ECMO. This system allows you to restore normal oxygen levels in the brain and deliver the right amount oxygen to all organs in order to minimize cell damage. At the same time, the patient’s body should be cooled in order to reduce metabolic activity in brain cells and stop their process death, while doctors are looking for the cause of cardiac arrest. It is done with using gel pouches that, when attached to the temperature control device is tied to the torso and legs. Once the body has reached the desired temperature, it is maintained throughout the day. Another way is to insert in the groin or in the neck catheter and through it to cool the blood. So succeed cool the heart and other tissues, but what about the brain? Recently another method appeared – cooling through the nose, where it is pumped cold steam specifically to cool the brain first first of all the rest of the body. But do not flatter yourself. If you your heart will stop, you will almost certainly not get any of this. In different hospitals, different specialists use completely different methods, and they are far from ideal. The fact is that unfortunately how notes Mr. Parnia, the study of death (more precisely, processes in body after cardiac arrest) science took up the last turn. And only very recently I began to seriously listen to people who have survived the so-called near-death experience, i.e. who saw the light at the end of the tunnel, etc. When a person suffering from depressed, goes to the doctor, he does not say: “This is an illusion. Stop doing that. Now I’ll tell you what really happens. ” But when the patient tries to tell the doctor his visions, from him just wave it off. (We add from ourselves that this is understandable: not with reliable methods, science is cautious in matters studying the workings of consciousness, leaving them to philosophy.) Mr. Parnia emphasizes: hallucinations or not, it is necessary to find out which processes in the brain lead to their appearance. Usually they say: well, this it’s just that the brain behaves strangely. Self-respecting (and science) a scientist will never allow himself to make such a statement. Mr. Parnia – One of those who do not shy away from such research. At the very top shelves of 25 hospitals (an average of 500 beds each), he and his colleagues set pictures that can only be seen by hovering under the ceiling. Posting 12,500 images is too much work, therefore, we chose the wards in which patients with cardiac arrest. Alas, the researchers are not lucky yet: only two of those that after resuscitation talked about ascension over the mortal world, lay in the wards with pictures. But they did not notice them. Our the hero is clearly fascinated by the phenomenon of death. Imagine: heart stopped, and in ordinary language, you died. But passes for a while, and thanks to the efforts of the doctors, you are returning to life, as if just survived the operation under general anesthesia. From this we cannot but conclude that consciousness (more precisely, the mechanism ensuring its existence) does not disappear immediately after of death. Moreover, it does not always hibernate, but instead continues to gain experience: the vision of leaving the body after death absolutely real for the person who survived it. How long Does human nature continue to live? And then, Mr. Parnia draws attention to the fact that people who have experienced near death experiences, in most of them talk about very pleasant experiences and even stop fearing death. Perhaps some mechanisms that soothe the dying. But why are they needed nature? What is their evolutionary meaning if the individual is still through a few hours will irreversibly disappear? Maybe it’s part of the fight organism for existence in anticipation of a resuscitator? Dmitriy Tselikov
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