In 1991, during a high-risk brain surgery that required her body to be brought to the edge of death, 35-year-old Pam Reynolds Lowery claimed she had an experience that defied medical explanation.

Despite being clinically unconscious with flatlined brain activity, she recounted detailed observations of the surgery, including the tools used and conversations among the surgical team.

The death of a 70-year- old woman after an operating table ... Yesterday it emerged that the tables are no longer being made. Getinge Surgical Systems, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which has taken ...