So, is he mostly dead, or all the way dead?
Posted on 07/01/2009 11:58:57 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
When Michael Jackson went into cardiac arrest, rescuers took him to a place known for bringing the dead back to life. A world-renowned surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center has pioneered a way to revive people that most doctors would have long written off, including a woman whose heart had stopped for 2 1/2 hours.
Tested on a few dozen cardiac arrest patients, 80 percent survived. Usually, more than 80 percent perish.
"They took people who were basically dead, not all that different than Michael Jackson, and saved most of them," said Dr. Lance Becker, an emergency medicine specialist at the University of Pennsylvania and an American Heart Association spokesman.
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However, the results in other patients show that "the window is wide open to new thinking" about how long people can be successfully resuscitated after their hearts quit beating, Buckberg said. "We can salvage them way beyond the current time frames that are used. We've changed the concept of when the heart is dead permanently."
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What -- were they planning a remake of the "Thriller" video?
(Yeah, I know that's in poor taste. Chalk it up to Jacko Fatigue.)
What about brain death?
I think Michael Jackson was “dead” before the day he died, actually. He was dead to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and His salvation, apparently — and it’s that kind of death that you don’t recover from...
I only post. I’m not a doctor. ;-)
Bringing the dead back to life?
I never would have guessed that they’d bring Zombies into the whole Michael Jackson death thing.
But that just bolsters my personal theory that EVERYTHING can be made better with the addition of Zombies. Books, movies, short stories, TV shows, celebrity DEATHS.... the list goes on and on...
It’s quite simple; once Zombies are added to the equation, more fun will be had by all!
The only way I can figure this working out at all would be if someone was continually performing CPR to keep the blood moving to the brain. Otherwise... there won't be anybody home even if they restart the heart.
And under Obama health care, we peons won’t be eligible for these techniques. Only those who are more equal will be revived.
Let the “Michael Jackson’s Not Dead!” Rumors begin!
I’ll be the first - I saw him in a Taco Bell in Ventura!
Wow, truer words have never been spoken. This, and any advanced exploration thereof, will be dead.
Yeah, it’s a good thing they didn’t take him to Cedars, he would have died.
Now, now. Cedars is a great hospital. Head and shoulders above most. In fact, I have an appointment there a week from today.
So, is he mostly dead, or all the way dead?
“And under Obama health care, we peons won’t be eligible for these techniques. Only those who are more equal will be revived.”
Nope. After there is no money in it for doctors, they’ll quit working so damn hard and these sort of inventions will never occur.
Why work, when you have to give it up?
Oh sheesh. Totally not relevant to the subject at hand.
With “all dead,” there’s usually only one thing you can do... go through his pockets and look for loose change. :-)
Um...is your life insurance paid up? It’s not too late to re-schedule at St. Joseph’s.
“including a woman whose heart had stopped for 2 1/2 hours.
I wonder what kind of shape her brain was in after that long without oxygen.”
In enough shape to vote for Obama.
You said — Oh sheesh. Totally not relevant to the subject at hand.
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Oh..., I don’t know about that. I seem to remember Jesus saying, what does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul....
I would say that would be very pertinent in a matter like this (Michael Jackson and his fame and fortune) and losing his soul... yep... pertinent...
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