The Global Ischemia Foundation is putting together a Board of Directors and will soon accept donations to fund research promoting recovery from such injuries and families struggling with its effects on a loved one. As of yet, there has been significantly less research dollars spent on global ishemia than the money poured into focal injuries and degenerative diseases. What research there has been, has been on making the injury less debilitating originally.
Such as http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16179519&query_hl=2 Though this research is certainly valuable, it fails to address the problems of so many cardiac arrest and near drowning sufferers.