British physician Sam Parnia, who specializes in bringing the dead back to life, insists that outdated resuscitation methods are wasting lives that could have been saved.
Dr. Parnia is the head of the intensive care unit at Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York. From the moment he took office, moving from the UK to the United States, a huge number of patients have been saved: the chances of returning from the afterlife have increased from 16% to 30%.
The Briton says he does not work miracles and uses relatively cheap and simple methods to restore vital processes that could save up to 40,000 American lives annually.
Parnia does not keep his technique a secret - he wrote a book in the hope that he would be heard and considered the method of resuscitation he proposed, called the Lazarus effect.
“I am convinced that people should not die from causes that are reversible. I say with caution that the victims of a heart attack should not die - many who have lost loved ones with this pathology react painfully to this phrase. But the point is, heart attacks can be easily dealt with. If you manage the death process, you can remove the blood clot and place a stent (a prosthesis inserted into a hollow organ to preserve lumen). After such an operation, the heart will resume its work. This technique can be used for diseases of various origins,”says the resuscitator.
The management of the death process is as follows: doctors quickly cool the patient's body to prevent apoptosis (programmed cell death), and then pump his blood through an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine, which cleans the internal environment of the body of carbon dioxide and saturates it with oxygen. At the end of the procedure, the purified blood is again poured into the person.
Using ECMO literally allows you to resurrect people.
“The Japanese girl I mention in my book has been dead for three hours. But after six hours of intensive care, she came back to life. Roughly the same thing happened with the football player Fabrice Mumamba. He was dead when he arrived at the hospital, but we managed to revive him. And this is not a miracle, but science,”says Parnia.
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