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That's not a phrase a physician would typically use. Laypeople sometimes use it to describe respiratory and/or cardiac arrest.
by wl 8y ago
That'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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