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    Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles That Are Saving Lives Against All Odds

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    An unborn baby with a fatal heart defect . . . a skier submerged for an hour in a frozen Norwegian lake . . . a comatose brain surgery patient whom doctors have declared a "vegetable."

    Twenty years ago all of them would have been given up for dead, with no realistic hope for survival. But today, thanks to incredible new medical advances, each of these individuals is alive and well . . .Cheating Death.

    In this riveting book, Dr. Sanjay Gupta-neurosurgeon, chief medical correspondent for CNN, and bestselling author-chronicles the almost unbelievable science that has made these seemingly miraculous recoveries possible. A bold new breed of doctors has achieved amazing rescues by refusing to accept that any life is irretrievably lost. Extended cardiac arrest, "brain death," not breathing for over an hour-all these conditions used to be considered inevitably fatal, but they no longer are. Today, revolutionary advances are blurring the traditional line between life and death in fascinating ways.

    Drawing on real-life stories and using his unprecedented access to the latest medical research, Dr. Gupta dramatically presents exciting accounts of how pioneering physicians and researchers are altering our understanding of how the human body functions when it comes to survival-and why more and more patients who once would have died are now alive. From experiments with therapeutic hypothermia to save comatose stroke or heart attack victims to lifesaving operations in utero to the study of animal hibernation to help wounded soldiers on far-off battlefields, these remarkable case histories transform and enrich all our assumptions about the true nature of death and life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateOct 12, 2009
    ISBN9781600247972
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    • 5/5
      well written and informative. put in such a way that you don't need to be s doctor to understand.
    • 5/5
      I found this book fascinating. In "Cheating Death The Doctors and Medical Miracles that Are Saving Lives Against All Odds," Dr. Sanjay Gupta examines cutting edge methods used in treating patients many others may have given up on--either because they appear dead (a shifting line he covers in this book) or are diagnosed as having an incurable disease, such as a glioblastoma, the worst kind of brain tumor.

      While the entire book is intriguing, the most fascinating chapters for me were "Cheating Death in the Womb"--which covers surgical repair of defects to fetuses still in the womb--and "What is a Miracle," which deals with some of the unexpected in medicine, like brain tumors that suddenly vanish, and may or may not reoccur.

      I have a nursing background, so books like this hold an appeal for me. But you don't need a medical background to understand what's happening to the various patients discussed in the book. Gupta does an excellent job breaking down what could be overwhelmingly complex medical issues and diagnosis into language anyone can understand.