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Jul 7, 2023 · A medically induced coma renders a person reversibly unconscious on anesthetic sedatives in an attempt to minimize damage, trauma, and pain. It is mostly used as a last resort in ICU and emergency wards to treat patients with traumatic brain injury, prolonged seizures, or after cardiac arrest.
Jun 12, 2023 · The Glasgow Coma Scale was first published in 1974 at the University of Glasgow by neurosurgery professors Graham Teasdale and Bryan Jennett.[1] The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is used to objectively describe the extent of impaired consciousness in all types of acute medical and trauma patients. The scale assesses patients according to three aspects of responsiveness: eye-opening, motor, and ...
Aug 7, 2007 · Documentaries on coma are virtually nonexistent, so I looked forward to the new HBO documentary “COMA,” written and directed by Liz Garbus. Filmed over the course of one year, the documentary profiles four young patients with catastrophic traumatic head injury who were treated at the Center for Head Injuries at the JFK Medical Center in ...
Sep 2, 2012 · One critic describes the four-hour mini, starring Lauren Ambrose as a medical student who discovers that healthy patients are inexplicably falling into comas, as "sometimes entertaining, sometimes ...
Coma is caused by a severe brain injury such as a traumatic head injury, brainstem stroke, or a brain hemorrhage that affects the surrounding tissue and brain structure, as well as severe hypothermia, drug overdose, drowning, and cardiac arrest. Regaining consciousness depends on the cause and severity of the injury and how long the coma lasts ...
Jun 19, 2017 · The short answer to this question is “it depends”. On the one hand, many critically ill Patients in Intensive Care in an induced coma who survive this ordeal will never have come any closer to death during their entire lifetime, on the other hand, the vast majority of critically ill Patients in Intensive Care will survive!
Dec 26, 2016 · Oluwaseun Olorunfemi, a 400 level medical student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, has died after being in coma for six days. Olorunfemi, who was hit by a vehicle on Tuesday, while going for “medical posting”, was rushed to Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTHC). At the hospital, Olurunfemi laid in coma until he ...
