Get Virtual Care
For Businesses
About Us
A member asked:
Is there brain function during a cardiac arrest?
8 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
For a brief time: When the heart stops circulating blood to the brain the functions of brain cease after about 5 minutes. If CPR is performed the brain function can return. However prolonged CPR may not get enough blood to brain to prevent brain damage even if heart recovers.
Answered 12/28/2016
6.3k views
No: Cardiac arrest means- heart not beating, hence no blood flow/ circulation- brain does not function when there is no blood supply.
Answered 7/25/2013
6.1k views
Initially yes: The brain is highly reliant on adequate blood flow and oxygen so the longer there is a cardiac arrest the more likely permanent brain damage will occur. The point of doing CPR is to maintain at least some flow to the brain that hopefully will allow recovery when the heart performance can be re-established.
Answered 6/10/2014
5.9k views
Related Questions
A member asked:
When someone goes in 2 complete cardiac arrest . No pulse heaetbeat . How many min would it take without oxyegen to b brain dead ?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
What happens to the brain during mitral valve surgery? What about people with TBI? Post-cardiac delirium, is that possible at age 35???
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
Could a pacemaker keep an individuals heart beating after a cardiac arrest. If the answer to the above question is yes, then how long would it continue to assist the heart in beating and would it help to prevent brain damage until medical help arrives.
3 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
A member asked:
WHEN I HAVE PANIC ATTACK MY HEARTBEAT IS OVER 250, I AM FEEL LIKE I AM LOSING MY MIND. MY QUESTION IS CAN PANIC ATTACK CAUSE CARDIAC ARREST??
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
My mother has fdiffuse Cerebral Edema Because of Cardiac arrest. She is Having Little Body Movements, Little Eye Opening but No concious yet.
A doctor has provided 1 answer
People also searched for:
Please tell me, could brain rumors cause cardiac arrest?
Is there a connection between cardiac arrest and brain damage?
How much time can a person be in cardiac arrest and survive with little to no brain damage when they are in icy?
My mom went in2 cardiac arrest & brought back but on life support -before her brain died completely could she hear me telling her I love her please?
My grandmother of age 70 got cardiac arrest and hypoxic brain injury occured. How long it will take to recover?
Didn't find what you're looking for?
90,000 U.S. doctors in 147 specialties are here to answer your questions or offer you advice, prescriptions, and more.
Ask your questionMore of what we treat
Download HealthTap
Video visit and message your doctor
