In Brief Recovering from cardiac arrest, your patient reports an out-of-body experience. Do you know how to respond? Following resuscitation from cardiac arrest, a patient may report memories of an otherworldly experience. Find out what researchers have learned about these experiences and how to respond to a patient who's had one.
Study exploring out-of-body experiences (OBEs), cultural differences in reporting those OBEs, and associations between OBEs and frequency of dream recall in 100 white and 100 black adults hospitalized in a university medical center.