The body doesn't discriminate near-death experiences by how many seconds or minutes away they were from death or each other. Especially in situations where life-saving intervention is required, the body simply considers it a death and behaves accordingly.

In Welcome Back Lazarus: Finding Your Footing after a Near-Death Experience, Robbie Grayson shares the unexpected difficulties of recovering from his own near-death experience. Is it possible that people who share a similar experience feel less at home "coming back" than "going forward"?