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[QUOTE="STEVEHOLT, post: 4512920, member: 522"]
I don't want to be too negative, but I think its important to be somewhat prepared mentally for possibilities. we've not been given many details so Im just going off what little I know and being quite nonspecific.  We do know that his vitals are stable and he's intubated.  this tells us next to nothing though.  the issue here is the time it took for his heart to "restart" from when it first stopped. it doesn't take much time at all for permanent cell death to occur in the central nervous system, specifically brain and more specifically gray matter structures in the brain.  Once that happens, it doesn't come back. anoxic brain edema is what ensues if its been deprived too long of "blood".  The doctors wont necessarily know if that has occurred until tomorrow.  (obviously if he gets visibly better, than yes, they can know earlier that it hasnt).

They can run diffusion MRI and look for massive stroke which will show up before anything on a CT, if that is positive, that is a bad sign that the visible edema will ensue.

I'm not saying that is what happened, im just saying prepare yourselves and dont take "vitals are stable" and what not as being out of the woods.

and i feel sick typing this just now.  really sick like im being constantly kicked in the gut over and over...but I dont know what else to do other than say something.
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