"Sudden death," even from a massive heart attack or in shock on the operating table, is not really sudden. After the heart stops, there may be a few last, shallow breaths. The brain lives on for five or six minutes, and perhaps longer under some conditions. In Moscow last week, at the Fifth International Congress on Biochemistry, Soviet investigators reported new findings about the dying brain, and new means of bringing the "dead" back to life.
A tall, grey-haired woman doctor, Maria Sergeevna Gaievskaya, described methods developed in Dr. Vladimir Aleksandrovich Negovsky's Resuscitation...
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