[Implication of near-death experience for the elderly in terminal care].
Nihon Ronen Igakkai zasshi. Japanese journal of geriatrics February 1998 H Yamamura
Near-death experience (NDE) was studied in a series of 48 consecutive patients who were admitted to hospital in a deep coma (level III on the III-3 coma scale) due to cardiac arrest, pulmonary failure, cerebrovascular accident, and/or other life-threatening disease. When the patients recovered from coma without complications such as aphasia, dementia or mental disturbance, they were interviewed...