Sam Parnia is the head of the intensive care unit at Stony Brook University Hospital, New York. Sam can resurrect you from the dead. In fact, he’s done it a few times.

According to the Guardian, “If you’d had a cardiac arrest at Parnia’s hospital last year and undergone resuscitation, you would have had a 33% chance of being brought back from death.”

That’s more than double the survival expectancy of cardiac arrest patients in hospitals all over the US and the UK.

Parnia believes that his methods could save the lives of up to 40,000 Americans and 10,000 Britons, though Parnia has said that medical professionals have a hard time believing his figures, and how can we blame them? The man is implying that he can bring 50 000 people back from the dead, a year.

But the science behind Parnia’s work is compelling.

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In an effort to create awareness and convince the scientific community, Parnia has written a book called The Lazarus Effect .

The Guardian had a review on hand.

The Lazarus Effect is nothing short of an attempt to recast our understanding of death, based on Parnia’s intimate knowledge of the newly porous nature of the previously “undiscovered country from which no traveller returns”. His work in resuscitation has led him logically to wider questions of what constitutes being and not being. In particular, he asks what exactly happens, if you are lying dead before resuscitation, to your individual self and all its attendant character and memories – your “soul”, as he is not shy to call it – before it is eventually restored to you a few hours later?

He suggests that the experience of talking to people who have returned from dying serves only to enhance his curiosity about the process they have undergone, and which he has sometimes helped to reverse. Other than that, he says: “In ICU, I see people dying every day and each time it happens a part of you thinks, one day this will be me. There will be people huddling round my bed deciding whether or not to resuscitate and I know one thing for sure: I don’t want it just down to pot luck whether I end up brain damaged or even alive.”

[Source: Guardian]