Decoding the syndrome

Mr. Ng Swee Hock, 65, of Malaysia, is the latest case of the mysterious Lazarus syndrome. According to Malaysian Star newspaper, he suddenly came back to life after 2 hours and 30 minutes since the doctor at Seberang Jaya Hospital declared dead.

Ng's unexpected resurgence is becoming a hot topic at Bukit Mertajam in Penang state. His son, Wei, said that he had rushed his father to the hospital at about 11 am 13-4 when he discovered he had stopped breathing at home.'Doctors have taken emergency measures and claimed he died an hour later,' Wei said. As for the hospital representative, the doctor waited for two hours since he stopped breathing to make a final conclusion, and his resurrection 2 hours and 30 minutes later could only be explained as Lazarus syndrome. .

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Representatives of Seberang Jaya Hospital also said that Lazarus syndrome is very rare and so far there has been no full explanation of what happened to cause the patient to die and recover .

From 1982 to 2009, medical history recorded 38 cases listed in this syndrome worldwide.

Fox News said that many of the dead conditions occurred in the United States, such as Judith Johnson's case in Delaware in October 2008. The patient was confirmed by a doctor to die after an emergency hour, but then multiplied. the morgue discovered that she had regained consciousness.

Mrs. Johnson later sued the hospital for appointing too many drugs as well as taking electric shock in an attempt to save her life, causing her to suffer liver damage, chest pain, dementia, convulsions, and nerve damage permanently. Although . Still not explained Lazarus' syndrome, this resurrected death situation has brought about problems of professional principles for doctors, who are responsible for declaring a death dead or not. And when it is necessary to end emergency measures to avoid the case like Mrs. Johnson above.

That is not to mention the actions taken afterwards such as autopsy autopsies and the removal of body parts agreed upon by the patients when they die .

Lazarus syndrome is named after the character who was saved by Jesus in the New Testament - only the spontaneous recovery of the circulatory system after the emergency efforts of the experts.