Question: can a person be brought back to life have after all the organs have stopped working in your body

Robert Bowles answered on 19 Nov 2014:

good question and quite hard to answer. All of our organs are made up of individual cells doing diferent specilised tasks. e.g. heart cells are muscle cells which expand and contract, liver cells detoxify our blood, cells in our guts absorb food, and our neurons in our brains fire wehn we have thoughts. Quite often our body can shut down these activies in some organs temporarily to send blood and nutrients to other more important areas, so organs can stop working temporarily and then restart. even the heart can do this, if it does stop, we can sometimes restart it. When we can’t be brought back to life is when too many cells in the individual organ have died. So for example if enough heart cells die due to a lack of oxygen after a blockage in a blood vessel stops delivering blood to the heart and starves the heart cells of oxygen, th heart can’t be resrated.
So it depends why the organs have stopped working and how much damage they receive when they do stop working. This is why people can sometimes be brought back to life after they have fallen into a cold river for example. The shock of the cold shuts the body down so fast no actual damage is done to the organs, so if you warm them up slowly before too mcuh time passes, they can revived.