A research team led by Dr. Sam Parnia of Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York has made an interesting statement about "life after death."
Sam Parnia has been researching human cardiopulmonary resuscitation for many years. And including many times he came across the fact that people who survived clinical death talked about their unusual visions and sensations.
The aim of the Parnia team's research is to improve the quality of resuscitation and prevent brain damage when the heart is restarted.
This time, the team studied cases of cardiac arrest in patients from the United States and European countries. And it turned out that the brains of these people were still working when they were already pronounced dead.
The brain worked so well that patients for a short amount of time continued to hear the voices of doctors around them and to be aware of everything. Survivors of heart attacks talked about what happened around them when they were already presumed dead after the heartbeat stopped. They even heard the doctor talk about the time of their death.
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However, research by Parnia's team shows that this is actually not the case. The functions of the brain, responsible for thinking, seem to "fade" and no brain activity is visible on the monitors. But in fact, brain cells can be active even for several hours (!) After the official death of a person.
According to Sam Parnia, there is nothing mysterious about this, since perhaps this is the "fault" of the procedure of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), during which a small amount of blood is sent to the brain, about 15% of the norm. And this is enough to slow down the death of brain cells, but not enough to give the brain a boost to work at full strength. Therefore, no reflexes are noticeable during CPR.
