Nurses/Doctors - Patient Near Death Experiences

[muchlovex]

Are there any doctors or nurses out there who have looked after patients who have had a near death experiences?

please explain..
Thank you

[Peter Pedant]

No but there should be a certain amount on the internet on this.

Basically if someone has a cardiac arrest in a hospital but is saved by timely action of the nursing staff and doctors

and question them afterwards, they tend to tell the same kind of story - the near death exp.

Bright light,
tunnel
voice calling
and also the sensation of floating above the body and looking down on the crowd around the bed as they apply the drugs and shock the patient.

These stories were so impelling that around twenty years ago, some hospitals went to the trouble of paintinng numbers on top of the lamp shades

and then when people said they had out of body experiences, they were asked -e rm anything you wanna say about the lamp shades
(nice neutral q there, not what number was it ?)

And I THINK in the series, no-one identified that it was a number let alone what number.


I had a septicaemia in a hospital and I didnt have any of this by the way.

[Peter Pedant]

Oh this is common enough for us to say
you're not mad you know,
lots of people have this......

So if you have a loved one who is disturbed by having had an out of body experience,
the answer is not tablets,
but counselling - available at your local GP.

results are good,
there shouldnt be any long term effects

[jake-the-peg]

Interesting article here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4898726.stm