GH1 and cardiac arrest: Furthermore, if GH had been administered at an earlier age, together with neurorehabilitation, it is likely that earlier and better results would have been obtained, according to our previous data in a child who suffered a cardiac arrest at birth of 20 min [28] and, as a consequence of it, experienced severe brain damage that was fully recovered one year later (GH treatment commenced at the age of one month in this case).