While ambulating, a patient gasps and drops to the floor unconscious with no pulse or respiration. When is the nurse aware that brain cells begin to die?

a. 1 minute
b. 2 minutes
c. 3 minutes
d. 4 minutes


D
Without adequate perfusion, the brain cells begin to die in 4 minutes.

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What will be an ideal response?

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