As per Parnia “If you can manage the process of death properly then you go in, take out the clot, put a stent in, the heart will function in most cases.”
Parnia's belief is backed up by his experience at the margin of life and death in intensive care units for the past two decades – he did his training at Guy's and St Thomas' in London – and particularly in the past five years or so when most of the advances in resuscitation have occurred.