Is it possible to bring someone back from the dead?
Is it possible to bring someone back from the dead?When I tell people that I’m a paramedic, there are usually some followup questions. The most common is, “What’s the worst call you’ve ever had?” Another favorite: “Is it possible to bring people back from the dead?”Answer: Yes. However, the victim can’t be too dead. The question of survival begins with whether we’re discussing clinical death or biological death. Clinical Death First comes clinical death, when breathing and blood flow stop. Clinical death is the same as cardiac arrest: The heart has stopped. Technically, clinical death requires both the heart and the breathing to stop, but that’s just semantics. Breathing will cease within a few seconds of the heart stopping. Clinical death is reversible. There’s a window of about 4 minutes from the moment of cardiac arrest to the development of serious brain damage. If blood flow can be restored — either by
