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How long can your heart stop beating before you have permanent brain damage?

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Cardiac arrest: If you are warm and not breathing and no chest compressions, 3 minutes approximately will yield irreversible brain damage, if you are hypothermic it could be signficantly longer.

Answered 5/16/2019

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