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What Is The Recovery Time For Hypoxic Encephalopathy Post Cardiac Arrest?
Hi , my mom is having hypoxic enceplapathy post cardiac arrest -duration ( 3-5 minutes).she is in hospital for almost 5 months now.now she is out of ventilar and she is conscious but responds inappropriately.how long will it take for her to get recover.Apart from this her entire body works fine and she responds to calls.Once in a while she speaks,kindly help onthis..... YYYY@YYYY
Mon, 1 Aug 2016
Hello ,
I do understand your concern however It's impossible to medically say how long will it take for complete recovery and till what extent will be the recovery , it depends on the extent of hypoxia during the cardiac arrest and how long it took then to restart the heart and establish circulation apart from patients age and already Co existing comorbidities. However as you have said that she is conscious and have pulled till so afar , there is an excellent chance that she would be back to near normal in near future as appropriate response are higher function and last to recover .
Regards Dr. Priyank Mody
I do understand your concern however It's impossible to medically say how long will it take for complete recovery and till what extent will be the recovery , it depends on the extent of hypoxia during the cardiac arrest and how long it took then to restart the heart and establish circulation apart from patients age and already Co existing comorbidities. However as you have said that she is conscious and have pulled till so afar , there is an excellent chance that she would be back to near normal in near future as appropriate response are higher function and last to recover .
Regards Dr. Priyank Mody
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