The AWARE Study: Awareness During Resuscitation

Record summary

The AWARE study prospectively examined awareness and recalled experiences during cardiac arrest across participating hospitals. It documented reports commonly associated with near-death experiences and investigated whether patients could identify hidden visual targets, while emphasizing the practical difficulty of monitoring consciousness during resuscitation. The study is important for comparing subjective altered-state testimony with medical timing and physiological records. Its sample, target-detection results and retrospective reports should be checked directly rather than converted into proof of disembodied perception.