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Cheating Death - The Doctors and Medical Miracles that are Saving Lives Against all Odds (Paperback)
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Cheating Death - The Doctors and Medical Miracles that are Saving Lives Against all Odds (Paperback)
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Loot Price R378
Discovery Miles 3 780
You Save R78 (17%)
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An unborn baby with a fatal heart defect . . . a skier submerged
for an hour in a frozen Norwegian lake . . . a comatose brain
surgery patient whom doctors have declared a "vegetable."
Twenty years ago all of them would have been given up for dead,
with no realistic hope for survival. But today, thanks to
incredible new medical advances, each of these individuals is alive
and well . . .Cheating Death.
In this riveting book, Dr. Sanjay Gupta--neurosurgeon, chief
medical correspondent for CNN, and bestselling author--chronicles
the almost unbelievable science that has made these seemingly
miraculous recoveries possible. A bold new breed of doctors has
achieved amazing rescues by refusing to accept that any life is
irretrievably lost. Extended cardiac arrest, "brain death," not
breathing for over an hour--all these conditions used to be
considered inevitably fatal, but they no longer are. Today,
revolutionary advances are blurring the traditional line between
life and death in fascinating ways.
Drawing on real-life stories and using his unprecedented access to
the latest medical research, Dr. Gupta dramatically presents
exciting accounts of how pioneering physicians and researchers are
altering our understanding of how the human body functions when it
comes to survival--and why more and more patients who once would
have died are now alive. From experiments with therapeutic
hypothermia to save comatose stroke or heart attack victims to
lifesaving operations in utero to the study of animal hibernation
to help wounded soldiers on far-off battlefields, these remarkable
case histories transform and enrich all our assumptions about the
true nature of death and life.
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