Clinical death is a condition when a person can be brought back to life if timely and correctly to provide resuscitation measures, then the consequences will be insignificant and the person will live a full life. People who have suffered a clinical death live a unique mystical experience and on their return become different.
What does clinical death mean?
Clinical death, definition is a reversible terminal stage of dying due to sudden cardiac arrest and circulatory system as a result of severe injuries (beating, accident, drowning, electric shock) of serious diseases, anaphylactic shock. External manifestation of clinical death will be a complete lack of life.
Clinical and biological death
How does clinical death differ from biological death? With a superficial look, the symptomatology at the initial stages may be similar and the main difference will be that biological death is an irreversible terminal stage in which the brain is already dead. Explicit signs indicating biological death after 30 minutes - 4 hours:
- stiffness - body temperature drops to ambient temperature;
- a symptom of a floating icicle (the lens of the eye is cloudy and dry);
- The cat's eye - when the eyeball is squeezed the pupil becomes vertical;
- stained (marble) spots on the skin;
- decomposition, cadaveric odor 24 hours after death.
Signs of clinical death
The signs of clinical and biological death, as already mentioned above, are different. Characteristic signs of clinical death of a person:
- cardiac arrest, blood circulation - the pulse is not probed;
- lack of consciousness;
- apnea (lack of breathing);
- dilated pupils, no reaction to light;
- pallor or cyanosis of the skin.
Consequences of clinical death
People who survive a clinical death change psychologically much, they rethink their lives, their values change. From a physiological point of view, properly conducted resuscitation saves the brain and other body tissues from prolonged hypoxia, so a clinical short-term death does not cause significant damage, the consequences are minimal and the person quickly recovers.
Duration of clinical death
Clinical death is a mysterious phenomenon and seldom happens casuistic cases, when the duration of this state goes beyond. How long does clinical death last? The average figures range from 3 to 6 minutes, but if resuscitation is carried out, the period increases, the lowered temperature, also contributes to the fact that irreversible phenomena in the brain occur more slowly.
The longest clinical death
The maximum duration of clinical death is 5 to 6 minutes, after which brain death occurs, but sometimes there are cases that do not fit into the official framework and are not amenable to logic. This is the case of a Norwegian fisherman who fell overboard and stayed in cold water for several hours, his body temperature dropped to 24 ° C, and his heart did not beat for 4 hours, but the doctors revived the grief-fisherman and his health recovered.
Ways to revitalize the body at a clinical death
Activities in the withdrawal from clinical death depend on where the incident happened and are divided into:
- first aid (artificial respiration and indirect heart massage);
- further resuscitation measures, produced by intensive care (direct cardiac massage, through the incision of the chest, the use of a defibrillator, the introduction of heart-stimulating drugs).
First aid for clinical death
First aid in clinical death is performed before the arrival of resuscitators, so as not to lose precious time, after which the processes become irreversible due to brain death . Clinical death, first aid measures:
- The person is unconscious, the first thing to check is the presence / absence of a pulse, for this within 10 seconds, do not force your fingers to the anterior cervical surface where the carotid arteries pass.
- Pulse is not determined, then you need to make a precordial blow (a strong one-shot punch on the sternum) to interrupt the ventricular fibrillation.
- Call for an ambulance. It is important to say that a person is in a state of clinical death.
- Prior to the arrival of specialists, if the precordial blow did not help, it is necessary to commit to cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Place a person on a hard surface, better on the floor, on a soft surface all activities for resuscitation are not effective!
- To tilt the victim's head with his hand on his forehead, to lift his chin and push the lower jaw, if there are removable dentures to remove them.
- Clamp tightly the nose of the victim and begin to exhale the air from the mouth into the victim's mouth, do it not too quickly, so as not to cause vomiting;
- To connect indirect heart massage to artificial respiration, for this purpose the projection of one palm is placed on the lower third of the thorax, the second palm is put on the first hand, the arms are straightened: the chest is pressed with confident jerky movement in an adult by 3 - 4 cm, in children by 5-6 cm . The frequency of pressing and blowing in air 15: 2 (pressing on the sternum 15, then 2 blowing and the next cycle), if one person produces resuscitation and 5: 1 if two.
- If a person is still, without signs of life, resuscitation is made before the arrival of doctors.
What did people who survived clinical death see?
What do people tell after a clinical death? The stories of survivors of short-term output from the body are similar to each other, this is the fact that life after death exists. Many scientists refer to this with skepticism, arguing that everything that people see on the brink is generated by the brain department responsible for the imagination, which functions for another 30 seconds. People during the clinical death see the following subjects:
- The corridor, the tunnel, climbing the mountain and at the end is always bright, the blinding light source attracting to it, there can stand a tall figure with outstretched hands.
- A look at the body from the side. A person during clinical and biological death sees himself lying on the operating table, if death occurred during the operation, or in the place where he found death.
- Meeting with close dead people.
- Returning to the body - before this moment, people often hear a voice that says that a person has not yet completed his earthly affairs, therefore he goes back.
Films about clinical death
"Secrets of Death" is a documentary about clinical death and the mysteries of life after death. The phenomenon of clinical death makes it clear that death is not the end, those who have gone through it and come back confirm it. The film teaches to appreciate every moment of life. Clinical and biological death is very popular in modern cinema, so for fans of the mysterious and unidentified, you can watch the following films about death:
- " Between Heaven and Earth / Just Like Heaven ". David, the landscape designer moves after his wife's death in a new apartment, but there is a strange thing, Elizabeth's girlfriend lives in the apartment and she tries to survive him all the way from the apartment. At some point Elizabeth passes through the wall and David realizes that she is a ghost and tells her about it.
- " 90 minutes in Heaven / 90 Minutes in Heaven ". Pastor Don Piper is in an accident, rescuers arriving at the site ascertain death, but after 90 minutes the brigade of resuscitators returns Don to life. The pastor says that the clinical death was a happy moment for him, he saw the heavens.
- « Comet / Flatliners ». Courtney, a student at the medical faculty, seeks to be an excellent doctor, she speaks to a group of professors, exploring interesting cases of patients who have passed through clinical death and are finding herself thinking that she is most interested in seeing and feeling what was happening to the patients.