• Question: @Emily is there any sort of medicine or anything that can bring a person whos been dead for a few minutes back to life??

    Asked by anon-226603 to William, Thibaut "Tibo", Harry, Georgia, Emily, Aimee on 20 Nov 2019.
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      Georgia Orton answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      In some cases defibrillators can be used to restart someone’s heart or get it beating normally but this has to be done very quickly and doesn’t always work. It does this by delivering an electric shock to the heart.
      https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/defibrillators

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      Emily Sparkes answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      I think it really depends on the cause of death in the first place. As Georgia said, sometimes doctors use defibrillators to restart the heart. There are also drugs that can fix a whole variety of problems that could also help, and people have been brought back to life after being legally dead for a number of minutes. However, if the brain is deprived of oxygen for a long time (eg while someone’s heart has stopped pumping blood to it) then they may have brain damage when they are brought back to life

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