NDE in survivors of cardiac arrest

During the pilot phase in one of the hospitals, a coronary
care-unit nurse reported a veridical out-of-body experience-
of a resuscitated patient:

"During a night shift an ambulance brings in a 44-year-old
cyanotic, comatose man into the coronary care unit. He had
been found about an hour before in a meadow by passers-by.
After admission, he receives artificial respiration without
intubation, while heart massage and defibrillation are also
applied. When we want to intubate the patient, he turns out
to have dentures in his mouth. I remove these upper dentures
and put them onto the 'crash car'. Meanwhile, we continue
extensive CPR. After about an hour and a half the patient
has sufficient heart rhythm and blood pressure, but he is
still ventilated and intubated, and he is still comatose.
He is transferred to the intensive care unit to continue
the necessary artificial respiration. Only after more than
a week do I meet again with the patient, who is by now back
on the cardiac ward. I distribute his medication. The moment
he sees me he says: 'Oh, that nurse knows where my dentures
are'. I am very surprised. Then he elucidates: 'Yes, you
were there when I was brought into hospital and you took my
dentures out of my mouth and put them onto that car, it had
all these bottles on it and there was this sliding drawer
underneath and there you put my teeth.' I was especially
amazed because I remembered this happening while the man was
in deep coma and in the process of CPR. When I asked further,
it appeared the man had seen himself lying in bed, that he
had perceived from above how nurses and doctors had been
busy with CPR. He was also able to describe correctly and
in detail the small room in which he had been resuscitated
as well as the appearance of those present like myself. At
the time that he observed the situation he had been very
much afraid that we would stop CPR and that he would die.
And it is true that we had been very negative about the
patient's prognosis due to his very poor medical condition
when admitted. The patient tells me that he desperately and
unsuccessfully tried to make it clear to us that he was still
alive and that we should continue CPR. He is deeply impressed
by his experience and says he is no longer afraid of death.
4 weeks later he left hospital as a healthy man."