Within five minutes of low oxygen, cell death occurs and can lead to brain injury, coma or death, according to the Cleveland Clinic. After 10 minutes without oxygen, total brain death occurs.

If the brain goes too long without oxygen, it could cause brain death or coma. Within 15 seconds of low oxygen supply to your brain, you’ll usually lose consciousness. Other immediate brain ...

If the person is alert, there is no risk of coma. Anyone with the person should ... breathing and circulation to maximize the amount of oxygen that reaches the brain. As a 2021 review explains ...

A coma is a medical emergency ... causing oxygen deprivation to brain cells. Without oxygen, these cells quickly begin to die. If the stroke is extensive and affects large portions of the brain ...

People who survive overdoses are far more likely to have a brain injury than the general population. I've been wondering if ...

"Obviously, I didn't know for four days because I was in an induced coma. But when I woke up, the first word I said was, 'No.' Anyway ... to which she "took the oxygen out of my nose" and told ...

Seven years ago, Katrina O'Neil was playing baseball when she went into cardiac arrest and was without oxygen for 22 minutes. Then only 29 years old, she went into a coma for three weeks.

Severe disability or coma was defined as a Cerebral Performance Category (CPC) of 3 or 4 (categories range from 1 [no symptoms] to ... of the patients in the oxygen-target groups were well ...