(July 30, 2013 at 6:45 pm)Rahul Wrote:(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
I wonder what they mean by healthy. No doubt he was healthy enough to function, but rather hard to believe he suffered no ischemic damage at all? Or maybe they fixed him up after.
Does raise the question of when do you stop trying to resuscitate.