(July 30, 2013 at 5:41 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: Ok, I stand corrected. The article says most patients who do not respond quickly (~12 mins) to resuscitation, their overall prognosis is poor. But apparently there has been lots of patients who survived after 30 minutes of resuscitation efforts who "did not appear to have substantially worse neurological functions at discharge". Interesting.
I found one that lasted three times as long and survived.
CPR Marathon: More Than Two Dozen Responders Resuscitate Neighbor for 96 Minutes
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/96-minute-c...d=13048099
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.