What is the chance that my father in law doesn't have brain damage?

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My father in law has copd he is in the last stage yesterday he went to the hospital because he was feeling really bad they were just about to send him home, the dr walked out of the room to get his paperwork and he sat up said he was hot and couldn't breathe, and fell back he had a cardiac arrest and it took 20 min to revive him....he is still on life support and the respiratory therapist told me that when they were doing cpr his chest was very constricted they haven't done the EEG yet but i just want someone to be honest and tell me the chances of him having brain damage.....he is such a good man, i am trying so hard to be strong for my husband....i just want to be prepared........
he is 60 and thanks so much, i know that i can't really be prepared i just want to know what the chances are, my husband keeps asking me what i think....is he gonna make it....i don't know what to say i don't want to give him false hope, but i also don't want him to feel like i don't care (we are pretty close my mom and my husband's older sister were best friends growing up, and me and my husband started dating when i was 14, my father in law means the world to me) ....i just tell him that i don't know to keep praying to god about it.
 
You will never be prepared for it - brain damage is the least of your worries, I think it is likely that he wont come off the life support machine and will probably have another cardiac arrest, I presume he is elderly? if he was younger he might stand a better chance but when you think about it what chances does he really have if he survives without the machine, it could happen again, being without oxygen for 20 minutes it is probably likely he will have brain damage but saying that 40 years ago as a child I had an accident, fractured my skull and was in a coma for 8 days, I had a blood clot in my brain and parents were told I only had a few days to live and if I did survive I would be a vegetable for the rest of my life but i survived with no side effects so you can only do what my parent did and pray and wait.
 
You will never be prepared for it - brain damage is the least of your worries, I think it is likely that he wont come off the life support machine and will probably have another cardiac arrest, I presume he is elderly? if he was younger he might stand a better chance but when you think about it what chances does he really have if he survives without the machine, it could happen again, being without oxygen for 20 minutes it is probably likely he will have brain damage but saying that 40 years ago as a child I had an accident, fractured my skull and was in a coma for 8 days, I had a blood clot in my brain and parents were told I only had a few days to live and if I did survive I would be a vegetable for the rest of my life but i survived with no side effects so you can only do what my parent did and pray and wait.
 
You will never be prepared for it - brain damage is the least of your worries, I think it is likely that he wont come off the life support machine and will probably have another cardiac arrest, I presume he is elderly? if he was younger he might stand a better chance but when you think about it what chances does he really have if he survives without the machine, it could happen again, being without oxygen for 20 minutes it is probably likely he will have brain damage but saying that 40 years ago as a child I had an accident, fractured my skull and was in a coma for 8 days, I had a blood clot in my brain and parents were told I only had a few days to live and if I did survive I would be a vegetable for the rest of my life but i survived with no side effects so you can only do what my parent did and pray and wait.
 
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