A Life's Pursuit: Restoring Life After Temporary Death




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Summary: Dr. Lance Becker, chair of emergency departments for North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center describes research and shares his experiences on the subject of restoring life to people well-beyond traditional time limits of clinical death. Dr. Becker is also an investigator at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and is chair of emergency medicine at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. In this conversation he demystifies a once-miraculous process, and says revivification may one day be routinely available for use by ambulance crews in a variety of settings and locations.