Researchers Suggest Brain Still Functions Once Heart Stops Beating: Patients Aware They’re Dead

Researchers Suggest Brain Still Functions Once Heart Stops Beating: Patients Aware They’re Dead
Jack Phillips
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A researcher has said that brain functions may persist for some time after a person is pronounced clinically dead. A study revealed that some resuscitated survivors of cardiac arrest were aware of their surroundings after they were pronounced dead.

Dr. Sam Parnia, head of research in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and assistant professor at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, interviewed flatlining patients before they came back to life.

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