Questão 620093

It started out to be a simple exploratory operation. Then, suddenly, the patient’s heart stopped. Her brain waves started leveling off. The medical team immediately began emergency treatment to try to start the heart again. At last the chief surgeon announced that the patient had died. Minutes later, much to everyone’s amazement, the “dead” patient came back to life. Her heart started, and her brain waves began to assume normal patterns. Later she told the doctors that she had been fully aware of everything that had happened while she was “dead”. She believed that she came back to life because she wanted so badly to live longer. She said death was not frightening, but she wasn’t ready to go yet. The experts admit that they have no satisfactory explanations for these death or near-death experiences. They admit that they do not fully understand life and that they do not fully understand death.

Linda Markstein and Louise Hirasawa. Developing reading skills — Advanced. Newbury House Publishers, p. 213 (with adaptations).

Based on the text above, judge the following items.

The patient was undergoing a risky operation.