Interesting story on how she awoke during surgery and was clinically "dead", or supposed to be...BD
The surgical procedure is called hypothermic arrest, though many use its nickname "standstill." Developed by cardiac surgeons in the 1960s, the surgery can be used to remove some previously inoperable brain aneurysms.
Once Reynolds's aneurysm was cauterized and clipped, the bypass pump was restarted. When her body temperature was high enough, Spetzler had to shock Reynolds' heart twice before it began beating again on its own. Then the patient — in a drug-induced coma — woke up on the operating table.
"I'll never forget it because they were playing the title cut from 'Hotel California' — 'You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave.' I told Dr. Greene I thought that was terribly insensitive. He looked like he swallowed a mouse and said, 'You need to sleep more, dear.'"
She was physiologically dead. No brain wave activity, no heartbeat, nothing. No blood inside her body of any consequence. She was dead.
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