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Can you give more details of "technically died"? Any after-life experience?
by da02 8y ago
Can you give more details of "technically died"? Any after-life experience?
- wl 8y agoThat's not a phrase a physician would typically use. Laypeople sometimes use it to describe respiratory and/or cardiac arrest.
- da02 8y agoThanks. I have no medical training, so that helps. So the brain can still function for a while during cardiac arrest?
- delecti 8y agoYes. In fact you can be "dead" for rather a while and still get better under very specific circumstances, typically involving hypothermia.
- kendallpark 8y agoI think the saying is, “Nobody is dead until warm and dead.” Example: https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/03/union_county_boy_who_fell_into.html https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/03/union_co... Another example: http://time.com/3897897/how-an-italian-boy-survived-42-minutes-underwater/ http://time.com/3897897/how-an-italian-boy-survived-42-minut...
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- SEJeff 8y agoTechnically died likely means cardiopulmonary arrest aka a heartrate of zero. Medical personnel refer to this as "a code" or "code blue" I drowned as a kid in a friend's pool when I was 7 or 8. I was "technically dead" as well. No afterlife experience, but as I was thrashing underwater, my entire body felt like you feel when your leg goes to sleep, and before I went "to sleep" I got really calm and everything was peaceful. The only thing I could feel other than whole body numbness was a strong warmth. I took one last look up at the sun sparkling on the ripples of water above and closed my eyes. A few minutes later, I awoke puking water and choking with my best friend shrieking hysterically as her mother frantically performed CPR on me. For some reason, my parents never ever let me swim in her pool again or go to her house unsupervised.
- diminoten 8y agoYou're crazy lucky, CPR isn't supposed to bring you back from anything or flush water out of your lungs, it's supposed to keep your blood flowing to your brain until paramedics can get to you.
- SEJeff 8y agoLucky indeed! I was terrified of water until I was about 12 and only then learned to swim.
- fredsanford 8y agoThe doctor told me that there was no heartbeat and no breathing for approximately 3 minutes. Since I'm still here... :) I called it technically dead. As for afterlife... I don't remember anything from surgery until I woke up 9 days later in the ICU.
- da02 8y agoAny permanent damage? Or did you make a full recovery?
- ryanmcbride 8y agoNot a doctor but supposedly a brain can be without oxygen for about 6 minutes without permanent damage.
- fredsanford 8y agoI had/have a few issues now. My kidneys were damaged and there have been slight memory issues. Both eased over time. The weirdest thing was, I started craving BBQ ribs. I was indifferent to them before.
- redial 8y agoGlad you are feeling better...but after reading your comment I too am craving bbq ribs. I was indifferent to them before.
- owenversteeg 8y agoAfter his comment I was curious, but still indifferent to bbq ribs. After yours, I too am craving bbq ribs. Some sort of ripple effect?
- mmirate 8y agoI read all three of these comments and I still dislike bbq ribs.