Resuscitation Cpr Quotes

Dr. Mark Crisplin, a Portland, Oregon, ER doctor, reviewed the original EEG readings of a number of patients claimed by the scientists as being flatlined or “dead” and discovered that this was not at all the case. “What they showed was slowing, attenuation, and other changes, but only a minority of patients had a flat line, and it [dying] took longer than 10 seconds. The curious thing was that even a little blood flow in some patients was enough to keep EEGs normal.” In fact, most cardiac patients were given CPR, which by definition delivers some oxygen to the brain (that’s the whole point of doing it). Crisplin concluded: “By the definitions presented in the Lancet paper, nobody experienced clinical death. No doctor would ever declare a patient in the middle of a code 99 dead, much less brain dead. Having your heart stop for 2 to 10 minutes and being promptly resuscitated doesn’t make you ‘clinically dead.’ It only means your heart isn’t beating and you may not be conscious.”31 Again, since our normal experience is of stimuli coming into the brain from the outside, when one part of the brain abnormally generates these illusions, another part of the brain—quite possibly the left-hemisphere interpreter described by neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga—interprets them as external events. Hence, the abnormal is interpreted as supernormal or paranormal.

The Emergency First Aid at Work Course is a specialised training programme offered by various first aid training providers. This course is designed to equip individuals with the essential skills and knowledge needed to perform emergency first aid in a workplace setting. The training typically covers a range of critical topics, such as managing an unresponsive casualty, CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation), dealing with bleeding and shock, and handling specific workplace hazards.

CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) training is an essential skill set that can make a significant difference in emergency situations involving cardiac arrest or breathing difficulties. This training is often sought by healthcare professionals, emergency responders, and even laypeople who wish to be prepared to assist in life-threatening scenarios.

Because CPR resuscitates thousands today, it is now a commonly known “NDE” or near—death experience, that at the moment of death your whole life passes before you in an instant, with perfect clarity; and in this “life review” everything is seen truly, nothing is covered up. God is apparently sharing a foretaste of His own vision of our life with us, as He will do completely in Purgatory and / or Heaven; and repented and forgiven sins are part of this bitter yet sweet vision. St. Thomas had no CPR, and therefore few NDEs as his data, as we do, but he knew this anyway, if not inductively from data, then deductively from philosophy.

from my Linkedin post: The sudden cardiac arrest of a Buffalo Bills football player, Damar Hamlin reminds me as a cardiologist that widely available, basic life support classes teach the two primary determinants of victim survival: -time to initiation of effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation, -time to electrical defibrillation. As described in my memoir, Different Drummer; "Cardiac resuscitation has evolved from physicians cutting open a patient's chest and rhythmically squeezing the victim's heart...to closed-chest compressions at a rate equal to the song Stayin' Alive'... Defibrillation can now be administered by trained laypeople using an automated external defibrillator, a device that is often available in public facilities...

Nonetheless, after installing 1,000 shelves and following 2,060 cardiac arrest cases over ten years—which had yielded just two out-of-body cases—with our luck, both of them had been in areas of the hospital without a shelf! So our research staff were unable to ask if they had “seen” any of the independent objective images; and once more, the images were not able to be used. This is the reality of very low rates of survival after cardiac arrest, combined with the rare recall of the out-of-body phenomenon among survivors. However, our findings did support the results of another significant scientific study that had been published in 2001 in the The Lancet, a prestigious medical journal, by Dutch cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel. He and his team had studied 344 cardiac arrest subjects and found one patient who had also reported a so-called out-of-body experience. As the man’s mouth was opened to insert a breathing tube during CPR, his doctors noticed that he had dentures. One nurse then removed them quickly and placed them in a specific drawer before continuing to help with the resuscitation. After ninety minutes the man’s heartbeat was restored, and he later recovered. A week later, he was transferred back to the ward where that same nurse happened to be working. The man recognized her, even though he had been unconscious the entire time during his CPR. This really baffled the nurse. He then recounted where his dentures had been placed. He later told Dr. van Lommel that during the cardiac arrest: “I was floating up near the ceiling, and I was trying to let everyone know I was still alive because I was afraid, they were going to stop trying to resuscitate me.” Based on this description alone, he, too, had likely maintained conscious awareness for some minutes while his heart was not beating and he was undergoing CPR.

Additionally, around 40 percent of the study participants, on whom our team of researchers were able to complete those first-of-their-kind second-by-second brain monitoring tests, showed signs of brain waves consistent with consciousness and some lucid thought processes at some point. Though their brains had flatlined, they exhibited sudden spikes in brain activity even up to one hour into the resuscitation. These were the so-called delta, theta, alpha, and beta waves. This was significant because, as already mentioned, some of these brain patterns ordinarily occur in people who are having lucid conscious thought processes and performing higher mental functions, such as memory retrieval and information processing. Now their detection for the first time in people undergoing CPR supported and validated the testimonies of millions of survivors of encounters with death, who like Admiral Beaufort, had recalled experiencing a state of lucid hyperconsciousness.