A boy spent 147 minutes under ice water, got 90 minutes of CPR, and lived (jacc.org)
Cold did the thing cold sometimes does: it slowed the body's oxygen demand faster than the lack of oxygen could kill it. Crews were told not to rewarm him until a hospital could take over, then ran CPR for roughly 90 minutes against a heart that was barely flickering.
The clinical maxim in the thread — "you're not dead until you're warm and dead" — turned into a harder question: how many people died because a rescuer assumed it was too late to try?
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