Restoring life may be getting easier, but the quality of that life can be questionable, especially when a revived patient never regains consciousness.
9 Things to Know About Reviving the Recently Dead | WIRED
In 1986, a two-and-a-half year-old girl named Michelle Funk fell into a stream and drowned. By the time paramedics found her, she hadn’t been breathing for more than an hour. Her heart was stopped. In other words, she was dead. Somewhat inexplicably, the paramedics continued to work on her, and so did doctors in the…
www.wired.com
Under California law, Target's common law duty of care to its customers does not include a duty to acquire and make available [a defibrillator] for use in a medical emergency.
The goal of this study is to rapidly cool trauma victims who have suffered cardiac arrest from bleeding with a flush of ice-cold sodium chloride to preserve the patient to enable surgical control of bleeding, followed by delayed resuscitation with cardiopulmonary bypass.
David Casarett, M.D., physician, author, researcher, and tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
As a 2.5 year old girl, Michelle Funk fell into a creek and was submerged for 66 minutes. When rescuers arrived she didn't have pulse and was not breathing. 3 hours after that, her blood was warmed. When it reached 77 degrees F. she came back to life and is still living to this day.