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In the pin-drop silence following a failed resuscitation, medical professionals sometimes witness the impossible: the Lazarus Effect. Technically known as autoresuscitation, this rare phenomenon occurs when a patient’s pulse and breathing spontaneously return minutes after they have been pronounced dead.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, there have been 76 cases of autoresuscitation reported in medical literature from 1982 to 2022. But most people died within hours or days. Some people survived but had brain damage. A small number of people made a full recovery.
Medical literature suggests that these return to life events typically occur within 10 minutes of CPR being terminated. Far from a miracle, the phenomenon indicates that the heart and blood circulation had not permanently ceased, but were rather operating at a level so undetectable that standard diagnostic tools and physical assessments failed to register them.
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