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Dr Sam Parnia's pioneering investigation into what happens during cardiac arrest will change attitudes to life and death.

Drawing upon ground-breaking research, Dr Sam Parnia explains what happens to the brain and consciousness during cardiac arrest. In The Lazarus Effect, he shares the amazing stories of patients who have survived cardiac arrest, and explains how this points to a new understanding of death. Medical science has made huge advances in recent years and it's now clear that: · If a patient hasn't taken a breath for 10 minutes, they are not necessarily dead. In fact, death is not a moment in time but a process - today you could still be resuscitated after 40 minutes. · In 10 years' time, we may recover loved ones hours, or even days, after their last breath. · If the body suffers a serious trauma, the heart and brain cells go into a sort of hibernation from which they can recover. · Recovery is much more likely if the body is artificially cooled - but only 50% of hospitals do this. · Only 1.8% of resuscitations are currently successful (unlike how it seems on TV hospital dramas).

· The 'dead' can remember things, and do have some awareness while they're 'out of action'. We need to reassess such questions as When is the brain actually dead? . . . When should organ donation begin? . . . What does all this mean about the nature of our minds and our bodies? Using DOWNLOAD PDF HERE the very latest science, The Lazarus Effect has profound implications for the ways in which we view death - and life . . . and will hopefully change the way medics treat us should we ever find ourselves in Accident and Emergency.

About the Author Dr Sam Parnia divides his time between hospitals in the United Kingdom and in the United States, where he is a critical care physician at State University of New York in Stony Brook. He is the Founder and Director of the Human Consciousness Project at the University of Southampton in the UK and currently leads a new scientific study, AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation), aimed at studying the brain and consciousness during cardiac arrest. His work has been widely featured in the Guardian, GQ, Psychology Today, Time, Newsweek, as well as on the BBC and CNN. He is the author of What Happens When We Die?

ISBN: 9781846043079 ISBN-10: 1846043077

Audience: General

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Number Of Pages: 352

Published: 7th March 2013

Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.3  x 2.6

Weight (kg): 0.466

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