Erschienen in:
01.06.2010 | Letter
Hypercapnia and hypokalemia in near-death experiences
verfasst von:
Bruce Greyson
Erschienen in:
Critical Care
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Ausgabe 3/2010
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Excerpt
Klemenc-Ketis and colleagues' novel report of hypercapnia and hypokalemia associated with near-death experiences (NDEs) [
1] was somewhat surprising, as Sabom [
2] had previously reported lower than normal carbon dioxide levels measured at the time of a patient's NDE, and Parnia and colleagues, in a prospective study of 63 cardiac arrest survivors, had found no significant association of either potassium or carbon dioxide with NDEs [
3]. …