(October 21, 2024 at 11:43 pm)Fireball Wrote: IIRC, the amount of time from when a person has no pulse (and thus, no oxygen replenishment to their brain) is six or so minutes, whereafter they would be considered brain-dead, due to glycogen depletion. Understand, I am not a doctor, and I did not follow the ambulance to the hospital from a scene to find out.
There is a well documented case of a woman having drowned (in scandinavia iirc) in icy waters and was brought back after 30mins. Temperature matters, a lot. That why (iirc) recommendations for treatment of clinically dead victms of whatever have changed from "keep them warm" to "cool them down".
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