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How long can a person be clinically dead?
At such low temperatures most patients can tolerate the clinically dead state for up to 30 minutes without incurring significant brain injury. Longer durations are possible at lower temperatures, but the usefulness of longer procedures has not been established yet.
What is the longest someone has been dead and came back to life?
Record. Velma Thomas, 59, of Nitro, West Virginia, USA holds the record time for recovering from clinical death.
When a person is considered legally and clinically dead?
If a person experiences the “irreversible cessation of all functions of the brain,” he or she is considered legally dead. What’s confusing is that someone who is brain dead can look and feel alive — they can keep breathing with the help of a ventilator, and their hearts can keep beating.
What are the clinical types of death?
The cause of the death is usually what determines the category it belongs to. Natural, accidental, homicide and suicide are the four categories a death will fall into.
Is clinical death death?
In summary, no heartbeat + no breathing + no brain activity = clinical death, but it does not necessarily spell Death. Clinical death is treated as a medical emergency, with CPR and the like following.
What did you see when you almost died from drowning?
All I saw was blackness, followed by many lights, lights became stars and stars turned into something I cannot describe. “I almost died from drowning last year and the experience changed me. I had been dead for an unknown amount of minutes. But they managed to pull me out of the water and revive me.
Can a person die twice in the same night?
This person “died” twice in the same night. Not necessarily ” clinically dead” but I was pronounced dead two times in the same night after a car accident I was in when I was 16. My great grandma pulled me out of the car and we walked through this really peaceful field of flowers.
Why do we hate the smell of death so much?
Maybe the reason we despise the smell of death so much is because it reminds our subconscious of being revived and our old lives. This really was not the ideal post to stumble across during my nightly existential crisis… Hey I have nightly existential dread too!