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Life really CAN flash before your eyes when you die! Intensive care doctor reveals five things patients on the verge of death experience…
- Dr. Sam Parnia, NYU Lagoon Health, studied 567 men and women over 25 years
- He found that “in death” patients could feel and hear things while they were in cardiac arrest
- These experiences include feeling the CPR, hearing medics, and dreaming
- A patient heard her deceased grandmother tell her to return to her body
- ***Have you been on the verge of death? What do you remember experiencing? Please contact hannah.mcdonald@mailonline.co.uk***
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Patients on the brink of death can see their lives flash before their eyes, hear medics treat them and feel the effects of CPR on their bodies, an intensive care physician has revealed.
Dr. Sam Parnia, an associate professor for the Department of Medicine at NYU Lagone Health, has spent 25 years studying when a patient’s heart stops.
For decades, those brought back from the brink of death have reported heightened consciousness, Dr. Parnia said.
The ICU doctor said this was the case even when patients were unconscious and ‘dead’.
An intensive care physician has revealed what patients on the brink of death experience, including hearing medication treating them
Two of the 28 participants recalled hearing the medical staff at work while undergoing CPR (file image)
Some patients remembered feeling the effects of the CPR on their body as it was taking place (file image)
The study of dr. Parnia examined the experiences of 567 men and women who received CPR after suffering cardiac arrest.
He told Medical News Today there were five main themes that emerged from the patients he studied.
While some patients remembered specific things, Dr Parnia said some “memories” were likely misinterpreted medical events.
An example of this was a patient who thought he was ‘burning in hell’.
Dr. Parnia said this was likely a reaction to the burning sensation of a potassium IV drip.
Two of the 28 participants recalled hearing the medical staff at work while undergoing CPR.
One patient recalled seeing medical staff at work and felt his chest being rubbed.
Three of the patients reported dream-like experiences, one of which involved a singing fisherman.
Some participants remembered feeling the CPR on their bodies, while others remembered evaluating their lives and thinking about how they had impacted others.
Six of the 28 patients interviewed recalled the experience of dying, with one person hearing their late grandmother tell her to return to her body.
Some people felt like they were heading to a destination they considered home.
Others remembered intensive care activities after undergoing CPR.
Some people felt they were heading to a destination they considered home (file image)
Three of the patients reported dream-like experiences, one of which involved a singing fisherman (file image)
“We typed the testimonials that people had and were able to identify that there is a unique remembered experience of death that is different from other experiences that people may have in the hospital or elsewhere,” said Dr. Parnia.
“And that these aren’t hallucinations, they aren’t illusions, they aren’t delusions, they are real experiences that come when you die.”
The men and women studied had brain monitoring devices to see if anything was being learned subconsciously while they were undergoing CPR.
The devices projected one of 10 images onto a screen, and audio played with different words, such as “apple” or “banana.”
Only 53 of these patients, less than 10 percent of the patients studied, survived hospital discharge.
Of these, 25 could not be interviewed due to poor health and the remaining 28 were asked about their experiences two to four weeks after their cardiac arrest.
Participants who passed an abbreviated mental test score to determine how their brains functioned were then asked open-ended questions about their experiences while receiving CPR.