Interesting read.

[TheOriginalJames]

Definitely something I didn't know. If you've been without oxygen for more than 5 minutes, resuscitation with oxygen actually makes your cells shut down and die.

Docs Change the Way They Think About Death - Newsweek Health - MSNBC.com

 

[dt3]

Holy shit, that's crazy! Bringing "dead" people back to life would be amazing...

 

[DanTastic]

as an EMT, ive heard many stories of patients dying from reperfusion introduced as soon as the patient was loaded into the ambulance

 

[GuesSAngel]

that's scarey