Pirn van Lommel

Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands

The Lancet December 1, 2001 Pirn van Lommel, Ruud van Wees, Vincent Meyers et al. 679 citations

BackgroundSome people report a near-death experience (NDE) after a life-threatening crisis. We aimed to establish the cause of this experience and assess factors that affected its frequency, depth, and content.MethodsIn a prospective study, we included 344 consecutive cardiac patients who were successfully resuscitated after cardiac arrest in ten Dutch hospitals. We compared demographic,...