The other organs can be restarted post-mortem, what makes the brain so different?
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The brain begins to experience permanent damage after ~3 minutes of someone’s heart not pumping oxygenated blood to it, and it’s permanently dead after ~7 minutes. This is why CPR and AEDs are so important. Your other organs are a lot more resilient. So if someone is dead at all, their brain was the first thing to become permanently non-salvageable.
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