Man brought back to life after no heartbeat for 47 minutes

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31 Dec 2009, 10:27 am

Did you see this? It's amazing!

CNN news video: Man brought back to life after his heart had stopped beating for 47 minutes


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31 Dec 2009, 10:44 am

My blackberry won't let me follow the link, but I hope he had some kind of blood flow in that time or there may not be much of a life in store for him!


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31 Dec 2009, 10:47 am

I gave a speech once on how chilling the body and preventing the mitochondrion from destroying cells after death makes it possible to revive someone who's been clinically dead for an hour.



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31 Dec 2009, 11:34 am

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My blackberry won't let me follow the link, but I hope he had some kind of blood flow in that time or there may not be much of a life in store for him!
The video shows an interview with the man and one of the doctors. So he can still move and speak and think. The man was shocked 8 times with a defibrillator, underwent 47 minutes of CPR. Brain damage usually begins after 2 minutes during cardiac arrest, death after 10. The doctor said he had the best (a very strong) pulse with chest compressions that the doctor ever felt in his career, which has bought some time. The doctors cooled the body down to reduce the metabolic demands of the brain and the internal organs and it helped them buy some more time. The man himself can't really speak about what he experienced, he finds it difficult emotionally. But he said in the interview he was doing fine, feeling great, though he still needs time to progress; and he said he came a long way.

I think the man must have a very strong body and he had some very good doctors!


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31 Dec 2009, 1:53 pm

MartyMoose wrote:
I gave a speech once on how chilling the body and preventing the mitochondrion from destroying cells after death makes it possible to revive someone who's been clinically dead for an hour.


That's interesting. What do the mitochondria do after someone has died? I know they essentially live in a symbiotic relationship with all other life forms on the planet and have their own DNA which passes down the maternal line in humans. I also know they are involved in the production of energy at a cellular level - we give them a home and they give us energy. I imagine they aren't very happy when their host dies?


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31 Dec 2009, 2:41 pm

The doctor said he was a little "blue" which reminds me of my own situation when I was born. My mother states that I was so dark blue that I looked black. She was in labor for 18 hours. I was finally born with the aid of forceps and was this color and completely limp and unresponsive. I was basically born dead and who knows for how long. I was resuscitated and worked over frantically. My mother didn't see me for an entire day and when she did, through a glass window, she said my color at that time was very ashen.

I had a near death also when I was nineteen with a lethal drug overdose but divine intervention saved my life. They used the shock defibrillators 3 times in the ambulance, had aspirated and developed aspiration pneumonia and was on a ventilator and in a coma for a week. When I woke up I immediately patted my body all over and then gave a big sigh. I can only surmise that I has seen my body somehow through that process as I was told that my kidneys had shut down and that I had blown up monstrously while I was rather underweight before. After this episode, I have never since been afraid of death or dying.



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31 Dec 2009, 4:28 pm

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Between cooling and a strong compressional pulse he hung in there. Apparently external pressure applied to his body and intubation was sufficient to keep his oxygen level up particularly when he was cooled down to reduce the metabolism.

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31 Dec 2009, 5:59 pm

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The doctor said he was a little "blue" which reminds me of my own situation when I was born. My mother states that I was so dark blue that I looked black. She was in labor for 18 hours. I was finally born with the aid of forceps and was this color and completely limp and unresponsive. I was basically born dead and who knows for how long. I was resuscitated and worked over frantically. My mother didn't see me for an entire day and when she did, through a glass window, she said my color at that time was very ashen.

I had a near death also when I was nineteen with a lethal drug overdose but divine intervention saved my life. They used the shock defibrillators 3 times in the ambulance, had aspirated and developed aspiration pneumonia and was on a ventilator and in a coma for a week. When I woke up I immediately patted my body all over and then gave a big sigh. I can only surmise that I has seen my body somehow through that process as I was told that my kidneys had shut down and that I had blown up monstrously while I was rather underweight before. After this episode, I have never since been afraid of death or dying.
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The mitochondria thing is interesting indeed.


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31 Dec 2009, 6:39 pm

TallyMan wrote:
MartyMoose wrote:
I gave a speech once on how chilling the body and preventing the mitochondrion from destroying cells after death makes it possible to revive someone who's been clinically dead for an hour.


That's interesting. What do the mitochondria do after someone has died? I know they essentially live in a symbiotic relationship with all other life forms on the planet and have their own DNA which passes down the maternal line in humans. I also know they are involved in the production of energy at a cellular level - we give them a home and they give us energy. I imagine they aren't very happy when their host dies?

In addition to providing energy Mitochondria are responsable for destroying damaged or mutated cells, basicly like a selfdestruct mechinism to keep the body healthy (sometimes the mitochondria fail to destroy these cells which is what happens in cancer, cancer cells are damaged or mutated cells which the mitochondria in them have failed to destroy.). When cells are cut off from oxygen the mitochondria mistake the cells as being damaged and begin to destroy them which is why in a situation where the body is not chilled it is extremely difficult to revive someone after 5 minutes. Chilling the body prevents this process from going into effect.



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31 Dec 2009, 7:39 pm

I don't think I'd want to be brought back after that much time.


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31 Dec 2009, 8:22 pm

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I imagine they aren't very happy when their host dies?


Yoo hoo! Mitochondria are NOT sentient beings. They are neither happy nor unhappy. Most of the living things on earth are not sentient, for example, bacteria.

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31 Dec 2009, 8:36 pm

I read an interesting article (don't have the link) about a man whose pregnant wife and future son both died on the delivery table. The doctors informed him both mother and child were clinically dead. Then after a few minutes - although the doctors can't determine why - both the mother and the son started breathing again. It was on Christmas Eve too.



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01 Jan 2010, 5:08 am

Interesting. Yes, that article ^ is on this news forum. Did these events both happen Christmas Eve?


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01 Jan 2010, 5:22 am

ruveyn wrote:
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I imagine they aren't very happy when their host dies?


Yoo hoo! Mitochondria are NOT sentient beings. They are neither happy nor unhappy. Most of the living things on earth are not sentient, for example, bacteria.

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It was a humorous expression, not intended to be taken quite so literally - are you pulling my leg?


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01 Jan 2010, 5:25 am

MartyMoose wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
MartyMoose wrote:
I gave a speech once on how chilling the body and preventing the mitochondrion from destroying cells after death makes it possible to revive someone who's been clinically dead for an hour.


That's interesting. What do the mitochondria do after someone has died? I know they essentially live in a symbiotic relationship with all other life forms on the planet and have their own DNA which passes down the maternal line in humans. I also know they are involved in the production of energy at a cellular level - we give them a home and they give us energy. I imagine they aren't very happy when their host dies?

In addition to providing energy Mitochondria are responsable for destroying damaged or mutated cells, basicly like a selfdestruct mechinism to keep the body healthy (sometimes the mitochondria fail to destroy these cells which is what happens in cancer, cancer cells are damaged or mutated cells which the mitochondria in them have failed to destroy.). When cells are cut off from oxygen the mitochondria mistake the cells as being damaged and begin to destroy them which is why in a situation where the body is not chilled it is extremely difficult to revive someone after 5 minutes. Chilling the body prevents this process from going into effect.


Thank you for the interesting reply and article link. I never realised they behaved in this way.


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