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A few years back while recertifying, I got interested in what the world record was for longest successful CPR recovery.

Longest I could find was this 4-hours incident, involving someone who'd gone into hypothermia some hours before:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/christine-tin...

I think I read somewhere else the lowered body temperature contributed to her surviving long enough for rescue.




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