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

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

by Sanjay Gupta MD
Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles That Are Saving Lives against All Odds

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

by Sanjay Gupta MD

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780446508865
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 10/11/2010
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 536,230
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Sanjay Gupta, MD, is a practicing neurosurgeon at Emory University Hospital and associate chief of service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

What People are Saying About This

Sanjay Gupta melds dramatic stories of people on the cusp of death rescued by life-saving advances. This book deeply touches the heart and enlightens the mind. --Jerome Groopman, M.D., Recanati Professor, Harvard Medical School, author of How Doctors Think

I owe my recovery and my health to medical advances and the remarkable pioneers behind them. In The World's Doctor, Sanjay Gupta, delivers a breathtaking preview of a coming revolution in medicine that challenges virtually everything we think we know about living and dying. A truly provocative and fascinating reading experience. --William Jefferson Clinton

In Cheating Death, Dr. Sanjay Gupta chronicles scientific advances that are saving patients’ lives in striking and almost unfathomable ways. This is a wonderful book and should be read by both healthcare professionals and the lay public. All will walk away feeling a sense of joy in the changes that Dr. Gupta so carefully and warmly details. --Henry S. Friedman, M.D., James B. Powell, Jr. Professor of Neuro-Oncology; Deputy Director, The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center

You will be on the edge of your seat as you read the superbly crafted stories of people who have beaten the odds, something I like to think I know quite a bit about. My friend Dr. Sanjay Gupta, America's doctor, has written a page-turner. It's an exciting medical thriller with the compassion, hope, excitement and aspiration that define Sanjay. --Lance Armstrong

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