Doctor Believes Advances Imminent in Resuscitation Science

Critical care physician Sam Parnia believes breakthroughs inresuscitation research will be made within the next 20 years that would enabledoctors to restore people to life in 12, or even 24, hours.

Today’s medicine allows resuscitation to occur up to twohours after a patient’s heart has stopped beating.  The average resuscitation rate in the US is18%, but at Parnia’s resuscitation research base that number jumps to around35%. 

Parnia believes there is a “widely-held misconception” thatthe brain undergoes massive oxygen-deprived damage three to five minutesfollowing cardiac arrest.

See Doctor Claims Patients Can Someday BeRevived 24 Hours After Death, Fox News, July 31, 2013.