06/16/2025
A cardiac surgeon was at work on a patient who had to be connected to a heart-lung machine. After the needed work was completed, the staff tried to take the patient off the heart-lung machine, but each time they did so, the heart failed to kick in and resume its job. No protocol they could think of would restart it. After giving more than ample time for all the life-saving techniques they could think of, they had to do the inevitable--declare the patient dead. The staff was bereft. The machines connected to the body were still recording, and they spoke in the operating room for 20 minutes. Low and behold, a heartbeat was registered, then more, and a faint pulse. After a few minutes, a more robust pulse and the surgeons called in the anesthesiologists to declare the once dead patient alive. They held out little hope that the man would ever be functional again, but he WAS a miracle in the making. The surgeons came back to talk with their formerly deceased patient, and the man described in vivid detail what it was like to be floating above the operating room table. He described the room, in detail, what each surgeon was saying, and all the implements. His eyes were taped shut during the operation, so he couldn't have "seen" it with his eyes, and he was declared dead, with a time of death that made his statements impossible, but they were all factual. So, as it were, many cardiac surgeons around the U.S. have had similar experiences with patients who "died", yet were around to see thousands of things and then came back to life. Where did they go? Admittedly, being deprived of oxygen for more than a few minutes causes brain and tissue death, yet many of these patients bore NO issues whatsoever. Their operating room recollections were 92% accurate.
