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by stzup7 3048 days ago
How does that woman not suffer irreversible neurological damages after 4 hours without oxygen?
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IntronExon 3048 days ago
Hypothermia. You use far less oxygen if your metabolism has essentially ground to a halt.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4530563/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24837800

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4322114/

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skywhopper 3048 days ago
Part (or much? it's not clear) of that time, rescuers were performing CPR on her, working her heart and lungs for her, so she didn't go that entire span entirely without oxygen.
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