Failure to elicit near-death experiences in induced cardiac arrest.
The Journal of near-death studies January 1, 2006 Bruce Greyson, Janice Holden, J. Paul Mounsey 13 citations
During the surgical implantation of automatic implantable cardioverters/defibrillators (ICDs), cardiac arrest was induced under closely monitored conditions to test the device. A computer displayed unusual visual targets visible only from above eye level, looking down on the unconscious patient, to test the accuracy of out-of-body perceptions reported in near-death experiences. In a series of 52 induced cardiac arrests, no patient reported having had a near-death experience, and none reported a sense of leaving the physical body or observing from an out-of-body visual perspective. This failure to find a single NDE may have been due to preoperative reassurances.