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Word: negovsky (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1945-1945
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Three and a half minutes later, a team of doctors headed by Moscow's famed Vladimir Negovski went to work. A forcible blood injection raised Cherepanov's blood pressure. After one minute his heart began to beat. He breathed in three minutes, became conscious in an hour. Soon, hale & hearty, Cherepanov was on medical display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 4 1/2 Minutes of Death | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...Negovski, the doctor who engineered the revival (and who has the resounding title: director of the Laboratory of Experimental Physiology of Moscow's All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine) had clone the same thing with dogs. After years of experiments with Pulmotors and blood transfusions, he and his associates have revived dogs that have been dead for six, ten, and even 15 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 4 1/2 Minutes of Death | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...Negovski considers that death occurs with the last agonal breath. He admits that weak, incomplete heart contractions may take place later, but points out that such contractions are not sufficient to raise blood pressure or to make blood circulate. Most doctors agree that when heart and lungs stop functioning, death is a fact. But even this rule is not hard & fast, since medical men have never accurately defined death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 4 1/2 Minutes of Death | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

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