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Wishard joins near-death experience study
Posted: Sep 28, 2009 12:41 PM EDT Updated: Sep 28, 2009 3:50 PM
Anne Marie Tiernon/Eyewitness News
Indianapolis - Wishard Hospital hopes to determine if there is life after death.
Wishard is one of two US hospitals joining an international study of near death experiences. The Today Show Monday morning featured Dr. Mark Farber's research at the Wishard Cardiac Unit.
The data will examine the experiences of people like Don Piper. He says he'll never forget the day he died. Killed in an accident on a Texas bridge, paramedics covered his body with a tarp. He remained that way for an hour and a half.
"Suddenly without any warning, there under the tarp in the dark, I started singing and I was back," Piper said.
Piper wrote about the experience in his best-selling book, "90 Minutes in Heaven."
"This is really fascinating. There's a lot of professionals from physicians to nurses and respiratory therapists and other people who have this interest that maybe they've never expressed before in phenomena that we perhaps can't explain, because everybody's heard about these things," said Dr. Farber.
Adding science to the story intrigued Dr. Farber, who heads up the cardiac unit at Wishard Hospital. The county hospital is one of two American facilities now enrolled in an international study called Aware.
"That may change the way we do resuscitations. For an example, there is an automatic resuscitator. We used to call it a thumper. And those things are now available. We used them for a while. We discarded them. But we assume because we feel a pulse in the carotid, or we feel a pulse in the leg that we are effectively performing CPR. But we don't really know what the brain is getting. This allows us to get a window into the brain in terms of its oxygenation. And if we find out that we're doing something wrong that needs to be corrected, that could have an important impact on how we resuscitate people," Farber said.
Researchers are testing the reports of some patients who say they were floating above their body. If a patient who is pronounced dead but later revived can remember the image, it could be evidence of out-of-body experiences.
"If we can show that people are actually aware of what is going on can see things that we can't explain, how they can possible see may be opens up a whole new enterprise and further investigation. To me that is what science is all about," said Dr. Farber.
http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=11211092
Anne Marie Tiernon/Eyewitness News
Indianapolis - Wishard Hospital hopes to determine if there is life after death.
Wishard is one of two US hospitals joining an international study of near death experiences. The Today Show Monday morning featured Dr. Mark Farber's research at the Wishard Cardiac Unit.
The data will examine the experiences of people like Don Piper. He says he'll never forget the day he died. Killed in an accident on a Texas bridge, paramedics covered his body with a tarp. He remained that way for an hour and a half.
"Suddenly without any warning, there under the tarp in the dark, I started singing and I was back," Piper said.
Piper wrote about the experience in his best-selling book, "90 Minutes in Heaven."
"This is really fascinating. There's a lot of professionals from physicians to nurses and respiratory therapists and other people who have this interest that maybe they've never expressed before in phenomena that we perhaps can't explain, because everybody's heard about these things," said Dr. Farber.
Adding science to the story intrigued Dr. Farber, who heads up the cardiac unit at Wishard Hospital. The county hospital is one of two American facilities now enrolled in an international study called Aware.
"That may change the way we do resuscitations. For an example, there is an automatic resuscitator. We used to call it a thumper. And those things are now available. We used them for a while. We discarded them. But we assume because we feel a pulse in the carotid, or we feel a pulse in the leg that we are effectively performing CPR. But we don't really know what the brain is getting. This allows us to get a window into the brain in terms of its oxygenation. And if we find out that we're doing something wrong that needs to be corrected, that could have an important impact on how we resuscitate people," Farber said.
Researchers are testing the reports of some patients who say they were floating above their body. If a patient who is pronounced dead but later revived can remember the image, it could be evidence of out-of-body experiences.
"If we can show that people are actually aware of what is going on can see things that we can't explain, how they can possible see may be opens up a whole new enterprise and further investigation. To me that is what science is all about," said Dr. Farber.
http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=11211092
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