A profound state of unconsciousness associated with depressed cerebral activity from which the individual cannot be aroused. Coma generally occurs when there is dysfunction or injury involving both cerebral hemispheres or the brain stem RETICULAR FORMATION.
A scale that assesses the response to stimuli in patients with craniocerebral injuries. The parameters are eye opening, motor response, and verbal response.
A state of unconsciousness as a complication of diabetes mellitus. It occurs in cases of extreme HYPERGLYCEMIA or extreme HYPOGLYCEMIA as a complication of INSULIN therapy.
Severe HYPOGLYCEMIA induced by a large dose of exogenous INSULIN resulting in a COMA or profound state of unconsciousness from which the individual cannot be aroused.
Prolonged unconsciousness from which the individual cannot be aroused, associated with traumatic injuries to the BRAIN. This may be defined as unconsciousness persisting for 6 hours or longer. Coma results from injury to both cerebral hemispheres or the RETICULAR FORMATION of the BRAIN STEM. Contributing mechanisms include DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY and BRAIN EDEMA. (From J Neurotrauma 1997 Oct;14(10):699-713)
A condition characterized by a dry, waxy type of swelling (EDEMA) with abnormal deposits of MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDES in the SKIN and other tissues. It is caused by a deficiency of THYROID HORMONES. The skin becomes puffy around the eyes and on the cheeks. The face is dull and expressionless with thickened nose and lips.
A serious complication of TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS. It is characterized by extreme HYPERGLYCEMIA; DEHYDRATION; serum hyperosmolarity; and depressed consciousness leading to COMA in the absence of KETOSIS and ACIDOSIS.
Acute and chronic (see also BRAIN INJURIES, CHRONIC) injuries to the brain, including the cerebral hemispheres, CEREBELLUM, and BRAIN STEM. Clinical manifestations depend on the nature of injury. Diffuse trauma to the brain is frequently associated with DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY or COMA, POST-TRAUMATIC. Localized injuries may be associated with NEUROBEHAVIORAL MANIFESTATIONS; HEMIPARESIS, or other focal neurologic deficits.
Traumatic injuries involving the cranium and intracranial structures (i.e., BRAIN; CRANIAL NERVES; MENINGES; and other structures). Injuries may be classified by whether or not the skull is penetrated (i.e., penetrating vs. nonpenetrating) or whether there is an associated hemorrhage.
A syndrome characterized by central nervous system dysfunction in association with LIVER FAILURE, including portal-systemic shunts. Clinical features include lethargy and CONFUSION (frequently progressing to COMA); ASTERIXIS; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; brisk oculovestibular reflexes; decorticate and decerebrate posturing; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; and bilateral extensor plantar reflexes (see REFLEX, BABINSKI). ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY may demonstrate triphasic waves. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp1117-20; Plum & Posner, Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma, 3rd ed, p222-5)
A condition characterized by somnolence or coma in the presence of an acute infection with PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM (and rarely other Plasmodium species). Initial clinical manifestations include HEADACHES; SEIZURES; and alterations of mentation followed by a rapid progression to COMA. Pathologic features include cerebral capillaries filled with parasitized erythrocytes and multiple small foci of cortical and subcortical necrosis. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p136)
Vegetative state refers to the neurocognitive status of individuals with severe brain damage, in whom physiologic functions (sleep-wake cycles, autonomic control, and breathing) persist, but awareness (including all cognitive function and emotion) is abolished.
Asymmetries in the topography and refractive index of the corneal surface that affect visual acuity.
The use of an aberrometer to measure eye tissue imperfections or abnormalities based on the way light passes through the eye which affects the ability of the eye to focus properly.
Systems for assessing, classifying, and coding injuries. These systems are used in medical records, surveillance systems, and state and national registries to aid in the collection and reporting of trauma.
A scale that assesses the outcome of serious craniocerebral injuries, based on the level of regained social functioning.
Unequal curvature of the refractive surfaces of the eye. Thus a point source of light cannot be brought to a point focus on the retina but is spread over a more or less diffuse area. This results from the radius of curvature in one plane being longer or shorter than the radius at right angles to it. (Dorland, 27th ed)
The measurement of curvature and shape of the anterior surface of the cornea using techniques such as keratometry, keratoscopy, photokeratoscopy, profile photography, computer-assisted image processing and videokeratography. This measurement is often applied in the fitting of contact lenses and in diagnosing corneal diseases or corneal changes including keratoconus, which occur after keratotomy and keratoplasty.

Surgical treatment of internal carotid artery anterior wall aneurysm with extravasation during angiography--case report. (1/558)

A 54-year-old female presented subarachnoid hemorrhage from an aneurysm arising from the anterior (dorsal) wall of the internal carotid artery (ICA). During four-vessel angiography, an extravasated saccular pooling of contrast medium emerged in the suprasellar area unrelated to any arterial branch. The saccular pooling was visualized in the arterial phase and cleared in the venophase during every contrast medium injection. We suspected that the extravasated pooling was surrounded by hard clot but communicated with the artery. Direct surgery was performed but major premature bleeding occurred during the microsurgical procedure. After temporary clipping, an opening of the anterior (dorsal) wall of the ICA was found without apparent aneurysm wall. The vessel wall was sutured with nylon thread. The total occlusion time of the ICA was about 50 minutes. Follow-up angiography demonstrated good patency of the ICA. About 2 years after the operation, the patient was able to walk with a stick and to communicate freely through speech, although left hemiparesis and left homonymous hemianopsia persisted. The outcome suggests our treatment strategy was not optimal, but suture of the ICA wall is one of the therapeutic choices when premature rupture occurs in the operation.  (+info)

Aphasic disorder in patients with closed head injury. (2/558)

Quantitative assessment of 50 patients with closed head injury disclosed that anomic errors and word finding difficulty were prominent sequelae as nearly half of the series had defective scores on tests of naming and/or word association. Aphasic disturbance was associated with severity of brain injury as reflected by prolonged coma and injury of the brain stem.  (+info)

Acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis in patients with acute myeloid leukemia in hematologic complete remission. (3/558)

The authors describe the cases of three patients affected by acute myeloid leukemia, in complete remission, who rapidly developed neurologic symptoms leading to death. Neither clinical characteristics, nor radiological or microbiological procedures, allowed an etiological diagnosis of the neurologic syndrome. Post-mortem examination of the brain showed both macroscopic and microscopic findings compatible with acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis. The difficulty in distinguishing this entity from other CNS disease-related complications (e.g. leukemia infiltration, drug toxicity, hemorrhages) should not lead to an underestimation of the true incidence of this complication. We believe that with more attention to the possibility of this complication there would probably be both a greater possibility of collecting clinical informations about the real impact of this dramatic disease and a stronger hope of finding the right treatment for it.  (+info)

Delayed ischemic hyperintensity on T1-weighted MRI in the caudoputamen and cerebral cortex of humans after spectacular shrinking deficit. (4/558)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Transient internal carotid artery (ICA)-middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion caused by cardiogenic embolus can lead to spectacular shrinking deficit (SSD): sudden hemispheric stroke syndrome followed by rapid improvement. The aim of this study was to investigate sequential neuroradiological changes in the brains of patients after SSD compared with those after brief cardiac arrest and hypoglycemia, which we previously studied with the same methods. METHODS: We serially studied CT scans and MR images obtained at 1.5 T in 4 patients with SSD. All 4 patients suffered from transient neurological deficits due to cardiogenic embolus in ICA-MCA. The symptoms began to disappear from 25 to 50 minutes after onset. RESULTS: Repeated CT scans demonstrated no abnormal findings in the affected cerebral hemisphere in 3 of the 4 patients and a small cortical infarct in the remaining 1. In each patient, repeated MRI between day 7 and month 23 after stroke showed basal ganglionic and cortical lesions. These lesions were hyperintense on T1-weighted and relatively hypointense on T2-weighted imaging. These ischemic lesions of hyperintensity on T1-weighted MRI subsided with time. CONCLUSIONS: Transient ICA-MCA occlusion leading to SSD produces a specific ischemic change with delayed onset in the basal ganglia and cerebral cortex in humans on MRI but not CT scans. We speculate that the lesions represent incomplete ischemic injury, including selective neuronal death, proliferation of glial cells, paramagnetic substance deposition, and/or lipid accumulation. Unlike brief cardiac arrest or hypoglycemia, the localized lesions on MRI of patients after SSD seem to be incomplete and to differ from infarction or hemorrhage.  (+info)

Application of a rheolytic thrombectomy device in the treatment of dural sinus thrombosis: a new technique. (5/558)

We present a novel application of a transvascular rheolytic thrombectomy system in the treatment of symptomatic dural sinus thrombosis in a 54-year-old woman with somnolence and left-sided weakness. The diagnosis of bilateral transverse and superior sagittal sinus thrombosis was made and the patient was treated with anticoagulant therapy. After an initial period of improvement, she became comatose and hemiplegic 8 days after presentation. After excluding intracerebral hemorrhage by MR imaging, we performed angiography and transfemoral venous thrombolysis with a hydrodynamic thrombectomy catheter, followed by intrasinus urokinase thrombolytic therapy over the course of 2 days. This technique resulted in dramatic sinus thrombolysis and near total neurologic recovery. Six months after treatment, the patient showed mild cognitive impairment and no focal neurologic deficit. Our preliminary experience suggests that this technique may play a significant role in the endovascular treatment of this potentially devastating disease.  (+info)

Cerebral malaria versus bacterial meningitis in children with impaired consciousness. (6/558)

Cerebral malaria (CM) and acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) are the two common causes of impaired consciousness in children presenting to hospital in sub-Sahara Africa. Since the clinical features of the two diseases may be very similar, treatment is often guided by the initial laboratory findings. However, no detailed studies have examined the extent to which the laboratory findings in these two diseases may overlap. We reviewed data from 555 children with impaired consciousness admitted to Kilifi District Hospital, Kenya. Strictly defined groups were established based on the malaria slide, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leucocyte count and the results of blood and CSF culture and CSF bacterial antigen testing. Our data suggests significant overlap in the initial CSF findings between CM and ABM. The absolute minimum proportions of children with impaired consciousness and malaria parasitaemia who also had definite bacterial meningitis were 4% of all children and 14% of children under 1 year of age. The estimated maximum proportion of all children with impaired consciousness and malaria parasitaemia in whom the diagnosis was dual or unclear was at least 13%. The finding of malaria parasites in the blood of an unconscious child in sub-Saharan Africa is not sufficient to establish a diagnosis of cerebral malaria, and acute bacterial meningitis must be actively excluded in all cases.  (+info)

Brain O2 consumption and glutamate release during hypoglycemic coma in piglets are temperature sensitive. (7/558)

Hypoglycemic injury in the mature brain is mediated by excitotoxicity, which is worsened by disordered cellular energy metabolism. The role of excitotoxicity in relation to brain energy metabolism during hypoglycemia has not been studied in the immature brain. Brain oxygen consumption (CMRO2) increases during hypoglycemia in piglets, whereas CMRO2 decreases in adult pig models. We tested the hypothesis that increased CMRO2 during hypoglycemic coma is temperature dependent and coincides with increased excitatory amino acids (EAA). We measured cerebral blood flow (CBF), CMRO2, and cortical microdiaysate EAA in pentobarbital-anesthetized piglets during hypoglycemic coma and during 2 h of recovery and in normoglycemic controls. In warmed animals brain temperature was kept normothermic (38.5 degrees C). In unwarmed animals brain temperature was allowed to fall (37.6 degrees C). During hypoglycemia CBF increased similarly in warmed animals and unwarmed animals; CMRO2 increased in warmed animals but not unwarmed animals. Glutamate increased during coma and increased more in warmed animals than unwarmed animals but normalized quickly during recovery. EEG recovered earlier in unwarmed animals. We conclude that during a hypoglycemic coma in the immature brain, CMRO2 and glutamate are increased in a temperature-dependent manner.  (+info)

Prevention of cerebral malaria in children in Papua New Guinea by southeast Asian ovalocytosis band 3. (8/558)

Southeast Asian ovalocytosis (SAO) occurs at high frequency in malarious regions of the western Pacific and may afford a survival advantage against malaria. It is caused by a deletion of the erythrocyte membrane band 3 gene and the band 3 protein mediates the cytoadherence of parasitized erythrocytes in vitro. The SAO band 3 variant may prevent cerebral malaria but it exacerbates malaria anemia and may also increase acidosis, a major determinant of mortality in malaria. We undertook a case-control study of children admitted to hospital in a malarious region of Papua New Guinea. The SAO band 3, detected by the polymerase chain reaction, was present in 0 of 68 children with cerebral malaria compared with six (8.8%) of 68 matched community controls (odds ratio = 0, 95% confidence interval = 0-0.85). Median hemoglobin levels were 1.2 g/dl lower in malaria cases with SAO than in controls (P = 0.035) but acidosis was not affected. The remarkable protection that SAO band 3 affords against cerebral malaria may offer a valuable approach to a better understanding of the mechanisms of adherence of parasitized erythrocytes to vascular endothelium, and thus of the pathogenesis of cerebral malaria.  (+info)

We carried out a prospective study with continuous EEG in 82 children with acute non-traumatic coma. Initial medium amplitude was associated with better outcome. We detected seizures in 34% of the children during monitoring and 20% had electrographic seizures only. Clinical observations alone did not detect 66% of the seizures apparent on EEG.. Previous studies have documented electrographic seizures in 7-65% of comatose children.18,-,22 Most of these studies have included children of different age groups, varied aetiology including epilepsy, and conditions that are not primarily neurological. Further, in developed countries where most of these studies have been performed, children are often paralysed and ventilated, thus suppressing clinical manifestations of seizures. In one study of non-ventilated Kenyan children with CM, EEG monitoring, albeit with intermittent (6 h) recordings, revealed clinically subtle and electrographic seizures in 23% of the patients.23 This is similar to the findings ...
EARLY intervention can help comatose patients recover through neurological rehabilitation. While studies have confirmed this, there is only one centre undertaking this in Bangalore for the entire State. Compare this with the United States, where all coma patients undergo a Coma Stimulation Programme (CSP) or sensory stimulation programme. This lacuna appears particularly stark in the…
Recently, the psychiatry and biobehavioral department at University of California - Los Angeles made a break through discovery in a new, novel method in jump starting the brain. In all cases of patients in a coma, there is a diminishing of brain wave function to the thalamus. The thalamus is important for many reasons, mainly as the relay station for sensation, which picks up sensations from different parts of the body and sends those impulses to the cerebral cortex. Without this function, people would not be able to feel any senses, or be able to react, which affects coma patients. The method, which was tested on one man who was in a coma, was an application of ultrasound waves applied directly to the head in order to spark the neurons to react. The use of ultrasound therapy has been accepted as an efficient tool in many types of injuries, including breaking kidney stones, bone fracture healing, cataract removal and much more. This is the first time though that the therapy has ever been ...
Richard Nixons condition worsened dramatically Thursday and the 81-year-old former President fell into a deep coma, his physicians said.
Outcomes range from recovery to death. Comas generally last a few days to a few weeks, rarely more than 2 to 5 weeks. After this time, some patients gradually come out of the coma, some progress to a vegetative state, and others die. Many patients who have entered a vegetative state go on to regain a degree of awareness. Others remain in a vegetative state for years or even decades.. The outcome for coma and vegetative state depends on the cause, location, severity and extent of neurological damage. A deeper coma alone does not necessarily mean a slimmer chance of recovery, because some people in deep coma recover well while others in a so-called milder coma sometimes fail to improve.. People may emerge from a coma with a combination of physical, intellectual and psychological difficulties that need special attention. Recovery usually occurs gradually - patients acquire more and more ability to respond. Some patients never progress beyond very basic responses, but many recover full awareness. ...
OBJECTIVES: To review and update the evidence on predictors of poor outcome (death, persistent vegetative state or severe neurological disability) in adult comatose survivors of cardiac arrest, either treated or not treated with controlled temperature, to identify knowledge gaps and to suggest a reliable prognostication strategy. METHODS: GRADE-based systematic review followed by expert consensus achieved using Web-based Delphi methodology, conference calls and face-to-face meetings. Predictors based on clinical examination, electrophysiology, biomarkers and imaging were included. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Evidence from a total of 73 studies was reviewed. The quality of evidence was low or very low for almost all studies. In patients who are comatose with absent or extensor motor response at ,/=72 h from arrest, either treated or not treated with controlled temperature, bilateral absence of either pupillary and corneal reflexes or N20 wave of short-latency somatosensory evoked potentials were ...
Prevention of secondary cerebral ischemia is a main objective in the treatment of comatose patients. In spite of considerable progress made by monitoring of intracranial pressure (ICP), arterial...
MMN and auditory evoked potentials provide a reliable assessment of the functional status of comatose patients. When present, MMN and the N100 differ from those found in normal subjects in terms of latencies and amplitudes. As a predictor of return of consciousness MMN had high specificity and low s …
Jeff Conaways manager says the former star of Taxi and Grease is in a coma following a drug overdose, possibly from pain pills.
Making accurate prognoses for patients in coma is notoriously difficult, and we need your help! By signing up for this study you allow us to learn from your story and provide us with data that can help improve the way coma patients are cared for and how doctors determine their prognosis. Enrollment is simple and straightforward and you can withdraw from the study at any time and for any reason.. Take a moment to look through the consent form, available here. In order to understand each case of coma, we need access to the protected medical records from the hospitalization in question. For that we need your signed permission. We also need your consent to participate in a research study, in which the information we learn can be analyzed and used to draw conclusions about how to make prognostication in coma better and more accurate. Feel free to contact us with any questions about the consent form or the study itself before you sign.. You can email the form as an attachment to: [email protected] ...
While the number of individuals suffering from long-term unconscious events (comas and coma similar states) is proportionally small relative to the population, the family members and friends of those in comas frequently suffer from significantly negative financial and psychological effects. One of the more prevalent negative effects is the uncertainty associated with comas. Patients and their loved ones can deal with most diseases and similar conditions because they know the cause, the available treatment options and how long to expect before recovery, if recovery is possible; unfortunately these elements are lacking for those in a coma. In addition most people tend to be optimistic and the idea that a person they care about will never regain consciousness is a significant psychological burden as well as a financial one due to resources required for care. Developing a treatment to increase the probability that one recovers from a coma will not produce the overall medical benefits of a cancer or ...
A coma is mysterious-the person seems to be asleep, but is impossible to wake up. Wounded Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was put into an induced coma in order to help her brain heal. Anne Strieber experienced this when an aneurysm burst in her brain. Neurologists are trying to figure out how to help these patients by studying how anesthesia works, because the brain under general anesthesia isnt asleep as surgery patients are often told-it is placed into a state that is a reversible coma. General anesthesia is a coma that is drug-induced, and, as a consequence, reversible. The states operate on different time scales: General anesthesia in minutes to hours, and recovery from coma in hours to months to years, if ever. Researcher Emery Brown says, monitoring brain function under general anesthesia gives us new insights into how the brain works in order to develop new sleep aids and new ways for patients to recover from coma. Neuroscientist Nicholas D. Schiff says, Understanding this ...
Little is known about whether residual cognitive function occurs in the earliest stages of brain injury. The overarching goal of the work presented in this dissertation was to elucidate the role of functional neuroimaging in assessing brain activity in critically ill patients. The overall objective was addressed in the following four empirical chapters: In Chapter 2, three versions of a hierarchically-designed auditory task were developed and their ability to detect various levels of auditory language processing was assessed in individual healthy participants. The same procedure was then applied in two acutely comatose patients. In Chapter 3, a hierarchical auditory task was employed in a heterogeneous cohort of acutely comatose patients. The results revealed that the level of auditory processing in coma may be predictive of subsequent functional recovery. In Chapter 4, two mental imagery paradigms were utilized to assess covert command-following in coma. The findings demonstrate, for the first time,
Learn about coma caused by trauma, hypoglycemia, brain bleed, edema, or poisoning, including alcohol poisoning. Depth of coma is measured by the Glasgow Coma Scale.
In optics (especially telescopes), the coma, or comatic aberration, in an optical system refers to aberration inherent to certain optical designs or due to imperfection in the lens or other components that results in off-axis point sources such as stars appearing distorted, appearing to have a tail (coma) like a comet. Specifically, coma is defined as a variation in magnification over the entrance pupil. In refractive or diffractive optical systems, especially those imaging a wide spectral range, coma can be a function of wavelength, in which case it is a form of chromatic aberration.. Coma is an inherent property of telescopes using parabolic mirrors. Unlike a spherical mirror, a bundle of parallel rays parallel to the optical axis will be perfectly focused to a point (the mirror is free of spherical aberration), no matter where they strike the mirror. However, this is only true if the rays are parallel to the axis of the parabola. When the incoming rays strike the mirror at an angle, ...
The leader of the study, Dr. Dr. med. F. Zubler explains: AI-supported decisions will become increasingly important for medical practice in the intensive care unit in the future. If we render this support transparent and traceable, we will also be able to have a more solid basis for making ethical decisions. A key result of the study was that the chosen visualization method was able to decode part of the deep-learning process and thereby identify certain EEG patterns on which the machine based its decisions. Interestingly, AI often uses the same patterns that neurologists use clinically when making prognosis decisions. ...
Proponents of organ donations have played fast and loose with the defintion of death in order to advance their goals. Obamacare may have irrevocably changed the physician/patient relationship, thus encouraging euthanasia.
The term coma cocktail refers to a combination of substances administered in an emergency to comatose individuals, at a time when the cause of the coma in the individual was not yet known. A standard combination included dextrose (1 Amp D50W IV), flumazenil (0.2 mg IV), naloxone (2 mg IV), and thiamine (100 mg IV). It has been suggested that the use of naloxone and flumazenil be administered more selectively than glucose and thiamine. Some have proposed that the concept be abandoned completely because modern EMS providers should be able to determine the likely etiology of the change in mental status. At a minimum, the clinical presentation of the patient should rule in or out some portions of the coma cocktail. For example, with the advent and widespread implementation of glucometers, the indications for administering glucose can be more narrowly defined and its use more regimented. The coma cocktail is thought to have been created in United States as a first line treatment for an unconscious ...
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Robert Anglen, a reporter with The Arizona Republic, documented the first 167 Taser-related deaths. Mr. Anglen launched a journalistic investigation of Taser International, linking the Taser to multiple deaths, among other eye-openers. At the 2005 Arizona Press Club Awards, Mr. Anglen won first place in the Investigative reporting category. He was the recipient of the Don Bolles Award for his report entitled Taser tied to independent study that backs stun gun. As part of an extraordinarily thorough investigation of Taser International, Anglen uncovered smoking gun documents that showed the manufacturer was heavily involved in the key study that purported the devices are safe. Anglen also uncovered conflicts of interest and documented wide-spread problems with Taser safety - a matter of national and international public interest.. In 2006, Mr. Anglen was a runner up for the Arizona Press Clubs Virg Hill Journalist of the Year award. Peter Bhatia of The Oregonian wrote Robert Anglen is ...
A mother in Hawaii is in a coma following an appointment to have her wisdom teeth taken out.. The New York Daily News reports that Kristen Tavares, 23, of Hilo, Hawaii, went into cardiac arrest during surgery by Dr. John Stover, her dentist. They also report that Dr. Stover has had 4 complaints filed against him since 2010 for other dental and medical violations.. According to Tavares boyfriend, Chauncey Prudencio, she was in the middle of the procedure to have her wisdom teeth removed when she went into cardiac arrest. The team on site used a defibrillator to restart her heart, and she was flown to a hospital. She is still in a coma and on a breathing machine. Her brain is swollen and her heart is too weak for any other medical procedures.. Tavares and Prudencio have two children together, the youngest of which is only 3 months old.. Two of the complaints that had been filed against Dr. Stover in the past have ended up being dismissed for lack of evidence. The other two are recent enough to ...
Person coma hear - Can a person in a coma hear you? Likely yes! I can answer this from personal experience. I spent months in an ICU on a ventilator and I was in a coma for part of that time. I heard a lot more than anyone imagined! Believe me, I could write a soap opera. Always assume that someone in a coma can hear you. Talk to the person as if they can, and put your mouth close to their ear. Dont let anyone make you feel silly for doing so!
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I suffered a series of strokes on both sides of my brain when the sepsis caused my blood pressure to plummet. I fell into a deep coma. My kidneys and lungs began to fail, as my body was began dying one organ at a time. My doctors told my loved ones to give up hope for my full recovery. They expected me to die, and even if I somehow lived, I would remain a vegetable or at best left so hopelessly brain-damaged that I would never be same. But unbeknownst to them, while they were shining lights in my eyes and shaking their heads, I was telling them in my coma-dream--my secular version of a near-death experience--to leave me alone because I was trying to get back to sleep. I was experiencing what is known as covert cognition, the subject of my Skeptical Inquirer article Covert Cognition: My So-Called Near-Death Experience, which appeared in their July/August issue ...
I suffered a series of strokes on both sides of my brain when the sepsis caused my blood pressure to plummet. I fell into a deep coma. My kidneys and lungs began to fail, as my body was began dying one organ at a time. My doctors told my loved ones to give up hope for my full recovery. They expected me to die, and even if I somehow lived, I would remain a vegetable or at best left so hopelessly brain-damaged that I would never be same. But unbeknownst to them, while they were shining lights in my eyes and shaking their heads, I was telling them in my coma-dream--my secular version of a near-death experience--to leave me alone because I was trying to get back to sleep. I was experiencing what is known as covert cognition, the subject of my Skeptical Inquirer article Covert Cognition: My So-Called Near-Death Experience, which appeared in their July/August issue ...
DUGi: Viewing Item from repository DUGiDocs: Improve the prediction of the vital and functional prognosis of comatose patients suffering from anoxic-ischemic encephalopathy after successful resuscitation from a cardiac arrest, addmitted to the Intensive Care and Coronary Units of the Dr. Josep Trueta Hospital, based on clinical, neurophysiological and biochemical results. The results of these different tests, revised and combined all together, will improve the prediction of the patients prognosis, leading to an accurate vital and functional outcome, as they only have been studied separately so far. Anoxia is the third most frequent cause of coma, and the most common cause of post-anoxic coma in adults is the cardiac arrest. The incidence of hypoxic-ischemic brain injury is not well known, but it is certain that cardiac arrest, the most common cause of post-anoxic coma, affects approximately 24000 to 50000 Spanish people every year, most of them occuring out of the hospital. A cardiac arrest is the
A coma is a medical emergency, and attention first is given to maintaining respiration and circulation. Assistance with breathing, administration of fluids and blood, and other supportive care may be necessary.. Emergency personnel may administer glucose or antibiotics intravenously, even before blood test results return, on the chance that the person is in diabetic shock or has an infection affecting the brain.. Treatment varies, depending on whats causing the coma. Sometimes surgery is needed to relieve the pressure due to brain swelling. Other treatments may focus on addressing an underlying disease, such as diabetes, kidney failure or liver disease.. Sometimes the cause of a coma can be completely reversed, and the person will regain normal function. But if the brain damage is severe, the person may sustain permanent disabilities or may never regain consciousness.. ...
Former F1 World Champion Michael Schumacher is in a critical condition and has been placed in a coma following a skiing accident on Sunday morning.
Former F1 World Champion Michael Schumacher is in a critical condition and has been placed in a coma following a skiing accident on Sunday morning.
List of causes of A persistent coma and Endocrine causes of coma, alternative diagnoses, rare causes, misdiagnoses, patient stories, and much more.
Texas BBQ is a contentious issue. Everybody has their own criteria, their own favorite, and their own subjective (wrong) opinion. I like to consider myself a purist: I enjoy Texas Ass Texas style BBQ as opposed to more nuanced niche genres. This means I like a lean and smokey brisket, beef ribs, smoked chicken, and my beans to be understated. There should always be a whole jalapeno in arms distance for showering brisket. Now, an anonymous friend of mine (Ryan Chavez) , made the request to make a pilgrimage to a favorite joint of his Burns BBQ in Acres Homes. Burns has been around for more than 25 years and I must say I was slightly bothered by the fact that I did not know of the place. Anyways, we hopped in Chavez 32 passenger van and made the arduous trek from Montrose to Acres Homes. Our friend Brittany and the bean pole thin Cley Miller of local band Young Mammals joined us. What I was to find was a ramshackle shack nestled in between houses and speckled with stray cats. Instantly ...
Coma Stimulation Program - NRIO offers a comprehensive Coma Stimulation program within community hospitals for individuals with a severe brain injury who need
Good but hard day today. I talked with the neurologist this morning. I found out today that all the moving hes doing with his arms and legs, which they call restlessness is usually seen in Rancho level 4. She explained to me that the Rancho scale is cognitive, so 1 is deep coma like right after the accident. Cale is at the baseline of 3 right now. The more severe the brain injury, the sooner they see this. Cale was showing it in level 2. I already knew that his brain injury was severe and that he was in bad shape, but since I was seeing movement so soon, I was thinking that he was making such quick progress. I felt like he was getting better so quick and that in the back of my head the long road was going to be a lot shorter for us. Also, at the end of the conversation I asked how well she thought Cale was doing and she said that over the last 6 weeks his progress has been very slow and thats about how things are going to go. She said with how bad the injury was its going to take a lot off ...
Pakistani prisoner Sanaullahs metabolic parameters are settling down, while he continues to remain critically sick and in a deep coma, Dr S N Mathuriya, head of the department of neurosurgery at the PGI Hospital here, said on Saturday.
The recent Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) guideline on decreased conscious level in children1 overlooks a treatable cause of coma. Opiates or benzodiazepines can cause coma following deliberate or accidental ingestion. The guideline advises considering drug ingestion and urine toxicology but fails to explicitly recommend naloxone or flumazenil as immediate therapy. These are harmless drugs and response is dramatic if intoxication … ...
Coma is an alteration of consciousness in which a person appears to be asleep, cannot be aroused, and shows no awareness of the environment. Coma is therefore the most profound degree to which the two components of consciousness, arousal and awarenes
Coma critical condition - What can I do for a friend in a coma and in critical condition? Support. I am guessing the friend is already in the icu. While most of the time in the ICU is not remembered, some is. Patients may still respond and communicate even if sedated since goal is comfort, not amnesia. Give them support, as well as their family and friends. Critical illness is stressful for more than just the patient and good social support and communication helps the people caring for them.
What is hyperglycemic coma, why does it develop. Varieties of coma in children and adults. Symptoms, diagnostic methods, complications. Principles of treatment and emergency care.
A TEEN cancer victim woke from his coma on Christmas Day to tell his family he loved them - the last thing he said to them before dying weeks later. Jay Oxley woke from an induced coma to tell his mum and dad: Merry Christmas, I love you all so much.
The EEG is used to evaluate several types of brain disorders. When epilepsy is present, seizure activity will appear as rapid spiking waves on the EEG.. Patients with lesions of the brain, which can result from tumors or stroke, may have unusually slow EEG waves, depending on the size and the location of the lesion.. The test can also be used to diagnose other disorders that influence brain activity, such as Alzheimers disease, certain psychoses, and a sleep disorder called narcolepsy.. The EEG may also be used to determine the overall electrical activity of the brain (for example, to evaluate trauma, drug intoxication, or extent of brain damage in comatose patients). The EEG may also be used to monitor blood flow in the brain during surgical procedures.. There may be other reasons for your doctor to recommend an EEG.. ...
The EEG is used to evaluate several types of brain disorders. When epilepsy is present, seizure activity will appear as rapid spiking waves on the EEG.. Patients with lesions of the brain, which can result from tumors or stroke, may have unusually slow EEG waves, depending on the size and the location of the lesion.. The test can also be used to diagnose other disorders that influence brain activity, such as Alzheimers disease, certain psychoses, and a sleep disorder called narcolepsy.. The EEG may also be used to determine the overall electrical activity of the brain (for example, to evaluate trauma, drug intoxication, or extent of brain damage in comatose patients). The EEG may also be used to monitor blood flow in the brain during surgical procedures.. There may be other reasons for your doctor to recommend an EEG.. ...
(Credit: Anne Marthe Widvey/Flickr) The finding may potentially make it easier to monitor people with sleep disorders, as well as unconscious coma patients or those under anesthesia.
A new tool may help neurologists predict which coma patients may be candidates for organ donation, according to a study published in the April 27, 2010, print issue
Today, Thursday November 16, 2017, marks the ninth anniversary of my return to the world after a seven-day coma due to bacterial meningitis - an illness that my doctors agreed most likely should have killed me. Their evidence that the human part of my brain, the neocortex, was too badly incapacitated for anything but the most primitive conscious awareness proved to be incompatible with the extraordinary experience I witnessed deep in coma, with features consistent with similar human experiences reported over millennia.. Of course, I have come to see my miraculous recovery and the extraordinary experience I witnessed deep in coma as a beautiful gift to be shared with the world. As my medical colleagues agreed, such a journey could not be simply dismissed as a hallucination, drug effect or dream because of the documented damage to my neocortex. My first book, Proof of Heaven (Simon & Schuster, 2012), marked the initial step in that reporting, but it represents a question mark in my journey, more ...
Is your loved one in a coma following a traumatic brain injury? You may be able to enroll them in a research study for an experimental treatment option.
A&Es two part mini-series Coma will premiere on the cable network on Monday September 3rd at 9/8c, with the concluding part airing the following night on Tuesday September 4th at 9/8c, it has been annouced.. Coma, a modern day retelling of the bestselling novel by Robin Cook and based on the film by Michael Crichton, is about a young doctor who discovers that something sinister is going on in her hospital after routine procedures send more than a few seemingly healthy patients into comas on the operating table. Starring in the four part mini-series is Steven Pasquale, Geena Davis, James Woods, Ellen Burstyn and Richard Dreyfuss. Coma also stars James Rebhorn, Joe Morton, Michael Weston and Joseph Mazello. The two part mini-series is produced by Sony Pictures Television, with Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, David W. Zucker, Martin Erlichman and Mikael Salomon serving as exeuctive producers. Emmy Award winner Mikael Salomon also directed Coma which was written by John J. McLaughlin.. TVWises US ...
Purpose of review The goal of this review is to highlight the influence of therapeutic maneuvers on neuro-prognostication measures administered to comatose survivors of cardiac arrest. We focus on the...
Get this from a library! Coma and impaired consciousness : a clinical perspective. [G Bryan Young; Allan H Ropper; Charles Francis Bolton;]
TY - JOUR. T1 - Conjugate eye movements and gamma power modulation of the EEG in persistent vegetative state. AU - Balazs, Susanne. AU - Stepan, Christoph. AU - Binder, Heinrich. AU - von Gizycki, Hans. AU - Avitable, Matt. AU - Obersteiner, Armin. AU - Rattay, Frank. AU - Selesnick, Ivan. AU - Bodis-Wollner, Ivan. PY - 2006/7/15. Y1 - 2006/7/15. N2 - Background: Power in the gamma band EEG increases during saccades in normal subjects. Objective: To develop a potential method to quantify signs of cortical responsiveness in persistent vegetative state (PVS) we quantified gamma range EEG in association with conjugate slow ballistic eye movements (SBEM). Methods: The EEG and the simultaneous electro-oculogram were recorded in 14 (8F/6M) PVS patients. Clinical scoring was based on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and Coma Rating Scale (CRS). The Wavelet Transform, followed by Hilbert transform was applied to the EEG and gamma power distribution was quantified relative to the timing of an eye movement. ...
Question - Stroke, persistent vegetative state, brain stopped functioning, MRI, EEG, improvement in eyelid . Ask a Doctor about diagnosis, treatment and medication for Persistent vegetative state, Ask an Oncologist
We present a case of a hypothermic, unconscious patient transferred to our Intensive Care Unit with sepsis requiring mechanical ventilation. The absence of any known past medical history as well as concurrent obstructive uropathy and bacteremia made initial diagnosis challenging. He was eventually found to be in myxedema coma in light of evolving signs and laboratory investigations. This case emphasizes the need to consider myxedema coma in the differential diagnosis of profound hypothermia, especially when other clinical signs and symptoms may obscure its initial diagnosis, and lead clinicians to focus on the triggering event in isolation rather than concurrently managing hypothyroidism. This case highlights a challenging presentation of an uncommon, but life-threatening condition. We discuss the signs and symptoms present in the hypothyroid patient with myxedema coma; emphasize the pathophysiology of myxedema coma as well as the evidence-based acute management of this condition.
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Administration of topical antibiotics led to resolution of the lesions within 3 weeks, and there were no signs of scarring or recurrence.. The clinical presentation and histopathologic findings were consistent with a diagnosis of coma blisters.. Clinically, coma blisters are characterized by tense clear or hemorrhagic blisters that develop on erythematous-violaceous macules or plaques of varying size. The lesions typically appear within 24hours of the intake of drugs and within 48 to 72hours of the loss of consciousness. They primarily develop on pressure points, such as fingers and toes, elbows, knees, ankles, and heels. They are self-limiting and heal within days or weeks, without causing scarring or atrophy. The only treatment indicated thus is topical treatment to prevent secondary infections.2,8. Multiple factors have been implicated in the etiology and pathogenesis of coma blisters, including local pressure or friction, generalized hypoxia and tissue ischemia, direct toxicity due to drugs ...
This article will review the symptoms, causes, and management of myxedema coma. Myxedema coma is a rare complication of severe hypothyroidism and a life-threatening medical emergency.
Myxedema coma is a life threatening condition that arises when the body has too little thyroid hormone and results in coma or a near coma state.
PubMed journal article: Magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion-weighted imaging changes after hypoglycemic coma. Download Prime PubMed App to iPhone, iPad, or Android
An Atypical Case of Myxedema Coma with Concomitant Nonconvulsive Seizure. . Biblioteca virtual para leer y descargar libros, documentos, trabajos y tesis universitarias en PDF. Material universiario, documentación y tareas realizadas por universitarios en nuestra biblioteca. Para descargar gratis y para leer online.
Another name for Myxedema Coma is Hypothyroidism. Home care for hypothyroidism includes: * Avoid alcohol. * Drink plenty of fluids. * Follow a diet plan ...
In a rare but potentially fatal condition, the thyroid gland can be underactive and cause myxedema coma. Learn about the symptoms and treatment of this serious condition.
Vegetative state refers to the neurocognitive status of individuals with severe brain damage, in whom physiologic functions (sleep-wake cycles, autonomic control, and breathing) persist, but awareness (including all cognitive function and emotion) is abolished.
Stimulation of the vagus nerve allows patient who has been in a vegetative state for 15 years to track objects with his eyes and respond to simple requests
It is customary to believe that a patient with a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score less than or equal to 8 should be intubated to avoid aspiration. We conducted a systematic review to establish if patients with GCS ≤ 8 for trauma or non-traumatic emergencies and treated in the acute care setting (e.g., Emergency Department or Pre-hospital environment) should be intubated to avoid aspiration or aspiration pneumonia/pneumonitis, and consequently, reduce mortality. We searched six databases, Pubmed, Embase, Scopus, SpringerLink, Cochrane Library, and Ovid Emcare, from April 15th to October 14th, 2020, for studies involving low GCS score patients of whom the risk of aspiration and related complications was assessed. Thirteen studies were included in the final analysis (7 on non-traumatic population, 4 on trauma population, 1 pediatric and 1 adult mixed case studies). For the non-traumatic cases, two prospective studies and one retrospective study found no difference in aspiration risk between intubated and
Scientific conservatives argue that the entire brain must die for a person to be dead, and this whole-brain concept was enacted into law. But this definition allows babies like Theresa and patients in deep, irreversible comas with just a scrap of brain function to be counted as alive. To some people this makes no sense. Anencephalics and patients in a so-called persistent vegetative state have only a brain stem, a stalk of brain that allows their bodies to perform basic, reflexive functions like breathing. But they will never be conscious, never see, feel, or think in even the most rudimentary fashion. Such functions are controlled by the cortex, the furrowed outer layer of the higher brain. Consequently some doctors argue that the death of the cortex reduces a being to a state thats less than human--a state of death. Therefore people in persistent vegetative states and anencephalic infants should be counted as dead and their organs released for donation ...
Plum and Posners Diagnosis and Treatment of Stupor and Coma, 5th edition, is a major update of the classic work on diagnosing the cause of coma, with the addition of completely new sections on treatment of comatose patients, by Dr. Jan Claassen, the Director of the Neuro-ICU at Columbia New York Presbyterian Hospital.
By Rowena Kong. Many unfortunate and unresponsive patients might never be able to show a hint of perception of their loved-ones faithful support by the bedside or the sight of their tears behind hopeful smiles. As such, the very existence of these patients level of consciousness and the accuracy of their clinical behavioural assessments have been debatable. Medical authorities and experts have come up with the category of disorders of consciousness to include conditions that impair ones state of awareness. Minimally conscious state and persistent vegetative state are two categorizations that have attracted particular interest due to the difficulty inherent in their identification and diagnosis (Bernat, 2006). In the case of patients in a minimally conscious state, there remains a certainty in their behavioural exhibition of sense of self and of the environment (Giacino et al., 2002). As for the persistent vegetative state, the condition is more severe and impacts ones full range of ...
Given adequate treatment the patient can survive for years and may recover towards the minimally conscious state or can gain complete recovery. ...
Another policy idea that has been around for many years is to shift cadaver procurement from an opt-in to an opt-out system. Some nations, including Spain, Belgium, France, Austria and Greece, have adopted this policy.4 Scotland and Wales as well as Iceland are or soon will try presumed consent.5,6 Still, there has been no movement to implement this policy in North America.. Yet another idea is to broaden the pool of potential cadaver donors. Some argue that brain death is too restrictive a requirement and that donor eligibility should be expanded to include a persistent vegetative state or a decision by a potential donor who is soon to die - death by donation.7 But adjusting the criteria for brain death is exceedingly risky. For decades, public support for donation has hinged on honouring the dead donor rule - no donation before determination of death. Patients in a persistent vegetative state or who have consented to death by donation are not dead according to cardiopulmonary criteria. ...
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The Case: The patient is a 27-year-old previously healthy male with a diagnosis of viral encephalitis with a lymphocytic pleocytosis on cerebrospinal fluid examination. For 3 months, he has been in status epilepticus (SE ...
One of the main symptoms that characterize a coma, is the loss or loss of consciousness, seizures can be combined with a shape similar to epileptic seizures, which are largely depict a picture of the causes of coma.. the presence of chronic diseases, which lead to the defeat of the functions of internal organs and coma can develop the condition, which is usually defined as predkomatoznoe health.. should add that there is a need to focus on the development of a sequence of symptoms that accompanies a coma.In this situation, when the symptoms of psychomotor agitation and seizures, may indicate the development of paralysis with the presence of a cerebral hemorrhage.. One of the most severe forms that cause complications in children who are forced to suffer from diabetes, is ketoatsidoticheskaya coma, a manifestation of which requires instant reactions of others, emergency, emergency, and most importantly - skilled and professional medical care.Children who for a long time seen as an ill with ...
In fact Im always surprised at the way people turn out and ooh and ahh at the blue angels. Its kind of like eating hamburgers, and really liking them, but choosing to be completely unaware of the death and blood that goes into making a hamburger. The difference being that with hamburgers its only cow death and blood, whereas with blue angels of death, its human death and blood. I suspect there is an associated smell, which neither the gawkers nor the pilots ever have to experience. BICBW. (But I suspect Im not ...
I assume that within the context of the question, when you say immoral and moral, you mean which you (the voter) considers to be immoral or moral ...
UPDATE: Lorenzo Lamas says his daughter Shayne was never in a coma and is awake and stable. She is aware she lost the baby and is very upset but is expected to recover. I thought TMZs report of her in a coma, not breathing on her own, followed by doctors expect a full recovery or whatever they said was odd. So glad to hear that she is fine other than the natural effects of losing a pregnancy.. Shayne Lamas daughter of Lorenzo Lamas and best know for her roles on General Hospital, The Bachelor and Couples Therapy is in a coma in an L.A. hospital after losing consciousness in her home, according to TMZ. Shayne was taken to the hospital by ambulance where doctors discovered internal bleeding near her uterus. Surgery was performed to stop the bleeding and as a result Shayne lost the baby during surgery.. TMZ reports that she is currently in a coma and not breathing on her own. The coma is likely medically induced to allow her body time to heal before she is confronted with the news that here baby ...
A comatose state in a patient with a history of chronic alcoholism or chronic liver disease may be due to causes other than hepatic encephalopathy. For correct therapy it is necessary to establish whether such a patient is actually suffering from a hepatic encephalopathy or from some other conditions producing coma. Since blood ammonia levels in hepatic coma vary greatly, we have determined the glutamine level in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of such patients.. We have diagnosed hepatic coma by the elevated glutamine levels (above 30 mg) in the CSF. This diagnosis was confirmed later by the clinical course, liver ...
Children presenting to hospital with decreased level of consciousness without a history of trauma can pose a diagnostic challenge given the wide variety of causes and the frequent lack of clues as to diagnosis. They can make significant demands on intensive and high dependency resources. A recent UK population based study found a 40% mortality associated with non-traumatic coma as defined by a Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) of 12 or less for at least six hours, with an estimated annual incidence of 30 per 100 000 children and 160 per 100 000 in the first year of life.1. An evidence-based problem-orientated guideline has been produced over the last two years to aid the clinician in the decision-making processes.2 The guideline was funded by a grant from the National Reyes Syndrome Foundation following on from their workshop chaired by Dr Sue Hall in 2002. This information is freely available at www.nottingham.ac.uk/paediatric-guideline ...
Answer: D. This presentation is consistent with myxedema coma, a hypothyroid emergency with a high mortality rate. This condition can arise in a poorly controlled longstanding hypothyroid patient or can be triggered by an acute event such as infection or surgery in a patient with a history of hypothyroidism. Thyroid hormone - T4 and T3 - should be given promptly for this diagnosis, in addition to continued supportive care (which may include intubation). Steroids will be given as well provided that coexisting adrenal insufficiency is still a possibility and sepsis will also be in your differential. Keep an eye out for myxedema coma in patients taking lithium or patients presenting with a pericardial effusion as well!. Check out this chart on myxedema coma from a prior EMDaily #EMConf post in 2018:. ...
Several conditions that render patients unresponsive and simulate coma are considered separately because of their special significance. The vegetative state signifies an awake-appearing but nonresponsive state in a patient who has emerged from coma. In the vegetative state, the eyelids may open, giving the appearance of wakefulness. Respiratory and autonomic functions are retained. Yawning, coughing, swallowing, and limb and head movements persist, and the patient may follow visually presented objects, but there are few, if any, meaningful responses to the external and internal environment-in essence, an awake coma. The term vegetative is unfortunate because it is subject to misinterpretation. There are always accompanying signs that indicate extensive damage in both cerebral hemispheres, e.g., decerebrate or decorticate limb posturing and absent responses to visual stimuli (see below). In the closely related but less severe minimally conscious state, the patient displays rudimentary vocal or ...
Liver injury is a frequent complication associated with anorexia nervosa, and steatosis of the liver is thought to be the major underlying pathology. However, acute hepatic failure with transaminase levels over 1000 IU/mL and deep coma are very rare
In the 30 years since this state was first described and named1 it has provoked intense debate not only among clinical scientists and health professionals but also among moral philosophers and lawyers. Considering its relative rarity there is also, courtesy of the media, an unusual degree of public awareness of the condition. What attracts attention and curiosity is the dissociation between arousal and awareness-the combination of periods of wakeful eye opening with lack of any evidence of a working mind either receiving or projecting information. The advantage of the term vegetative state is that it simply describes observed behaviour, without implying specific structural pathology. However, since the realisation that this state is frequently temporary, the original term persistent vegetative state is potentially misleading as it suggests irreversibility. After a certain length of time it may none the less be reasonable to describe this state as permanent.2. Before specific diagnostic ...
12 year old Martin Pistorius fell into a deep coma, believed to be the result of cryptococcal meningitis. In time the doctors prognosis was that it was permanent vegetative state and his parents took him home to care for him until he died. Except he didnt. They were unaware that around age 14, Martin had regained consciousness, but was now suffering from a rare syndrome, locked in syndrome and he could hear, see and understand everything around him. he just could not respond or
Coma occurs when a profound reduction in neuronal function results in unresponsiveness to sensory stimuli. It constitutes the most severe manifestation of altered mental status. Coma is further categorized depending on the area of the brain affected.1-3 Several scoring systems exist that permit objective and reproducible assessment of the degree of altered mental status and allow effective communication among health care providers. The most widely used is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), which scores three responses with a range from 3 to 15.2,4 The GCS has been modified so that it can be applied to infants and children. The main difference is the verbal response (Table 5-1).2,5 ...
Making accurate prognoses for patients in coma is notoriously difficult, and we need your help! By signing up for this study you allow us to learn from your story and provide us with data that can help improve the way coma patients are cared for and how doctors determine their prognosis. Enrollment is simple and straightforward and you can withdraw from the study at any time and for any reason.. Take a moment to look through the consent form, available here. In order to understand each case of coma, we need access to the protected medical records from the hospitalization in question. For that we need your signed permission. We also need your consent to participate in a research study, in which the information we learn can be analyzed and used to draw conclusions about how to make prognostication in coma better and more accurate. Feel free to contact us with any questions about the consent form or the study itself before you sign.. You can email the form as an attachment to: [email protected] ...
Delirium, stupor and coma are common clinical states that confront clinicians in almost every medical specialty. With appropriate diagnosis and treatment, coma can often be treated successfully. Conversely, delay in diagnosis and treatment may be lethal. This monograph provides an update on the clinical approach that was laid out in the previous 3 editions.
Objectives: (1) To check music or voice message influence on vital signs, facial expressions or muscular tonus of coma, vegetative or sedated patients; (2) To connect the existence of patients responsiveness with the Glasgow Coma Scale or with the Ramsay Sedation Scale; (3)To evaluate the relation between the response and the score of Glasgow Outcome Scale ...
Like many others in the health care field, we paid little attention to patients cultural background until we experienced two cases which profoundly emphasised the need for cultural awareness and sensitivity. Both involved severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) where the patients were initially unable to speak for themselves as they were in comatose states.. One case was that of a member of the Shoshone Paiute tribe. This woman, M, was involved in a serious automobile accident in which she sustained a TBI leaving her comatose. She had no visitors during her first two weeks in the intensive care unit (ICU). Little was known about her background. M seemed to be recovering from her injuries, but did not respond in any way to environmental stimulation or attempts to assess her level of consciousness. She appeared comatose despite brain images revealing no damage accounting for her continued comatose state. Near the end of her third week in ICU, Ms mother and aunt visited. We learned that M ...
A coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond to painful stimuli, light, sound, and lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle. A coma is caused by injury to either the cerebral cortex or the reticular activating system. It is a serious medical condition that creates brain irregularity and causes people to experience post-traumatic amnesia. Depending on the length of the coma, patients will suffer a different recovery time.
The brain under general anesthesia isnt asleep as surgery patients are often told -- it is placed into a state that is a reversible coma, according to three neuroscientists who have published an extensive review of general anesthesia, sleep and coma, in the Dec. 30 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. This insight and others reported in their review article could eventually lead to new approaches to general anesthesia and improved diagnosis and treatment for sleep abnormalities and emergence from coma.
The purpose of this study is to understand mechanisms associated with the development of coma during hepatic failure. As of today, those mechanisms are not understood and it is difficult to intervene and prevent coma development which is often associated with mortality. Understanding the mechanism involved, may allow us to prevent coma and develop new therapies to treat this disease ...
Coma is the nebulous envelope around the nucleus of a comet. It is formed when the comet passes close to the Sun on its highly elliptical orbit; as the comet warms, parts of it sublimate.[1] This gives a comet a fuzzy appearance when viewed in telescopes and distinguishes it from stars. The word coma comes from the Greek kome, in Greek written as κόμη, and can be translated as hair.[2] The coma is generally made of ice and dust.[1] Water dominates up to 90% of the volatiles that outflow from the nucleus when the comet is within 3-4 AU of the Sun.[1] The H2O parent molecule is destroyed primarily through photodissociation and to a much smaller extent photoionization.[1] The solar wind plays a minor role in the destruction of water compared to photochemistry.[1] Larger dust particles are left along the comets orbital path while smaller particles are pushed away from the Sun into the comets tail by light pressure. On 11 August 2014, astronomers released studies, using the Atacama Large ...
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, NY, have created a new coma scale they say is superior to the commonly used Glasgow Coma Scale (GSC). The new scale, called the FOUR (Full Outline of UnResponsiveness) Score, is detailed in a recent article in the Annals of Neurology.1
Today, even though therapeutic hypothermia is the only therapy proven to decrease mortality and improve neurological outcomes in comatose patients after cardiac arrest, an analysis of data on 26,519 patients in the United States suggests that it is used in only 0.35% of cases.
The FCC published its reprint of Section 5 of the USCCB document in January 2007, nearly two years after Terris death. Section 5 also states in part, The USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities report, in addition, points out the necessary distinctions between questions already resolved by the magisterium and those requiring further reflection, as, for example, the morality of withdrawing medically assisted hydration and nutrition from a person who is in the condition that is recognized by physicians as the persistent vegetative state (PVS). (emphasis added). Why did the FCC reprint this statement in 2007, when the magisterium had already addressed the question of withdrawing nutrition and hydration? In 2004, one year prior to Terris death, Pope John Paul II, speaking to participants in an international congress titled Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State, declared, I should like particularly to underline how the administration of water and food, even when provided by artificial ...
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An induced coma - also known as a medically induced coma (MIC), barbiturate-induced coma, or drug-induced coma - is a temporary ... Induced coma is a feature of the Milwaukee protocol, a controversial method that is promoted as a means of treating rabies ... Induced coma usually results in significant systemic adverse effects. The patient is likely to completely lose respiratory ... "Barbiturate Coma". Trauma.org. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2016. Therapeutic EEG response ...
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Coma is also not necessarily seen in myxedema coma. According to newer theories, myxedema coma could result from allostatic ... precipitates the myxedema coma state, usually in the elderly. Primary symptoms of myxedema coma are altered mental status and ... Myxedema coma is most common in people 60 years old and older and is most common in the winter months when hypothermia is more ... Myxedema coma is an extreme or decompensated form of hypothyroidism and while uncommon, is potentially lethal. A person may ...
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... and named the novel Beijing Coma in reference to this. Beijing Coma was listed as one of The New York Times "100 Notable Books ... Beijing Coma is a 2008 novel by Ma Jian. It was translated from Chinese by Flora Drew. The Chinese government has since banned ... Ma used red paint to smear a cross over his face and attempted to present a copy of Beijing Coma to Liu Binjie, but was stopped ... The book's narrative switches between Dai Wei's time as a seemingly non-responsive coma patient to his life before his shooting ...
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A coma cocktail is a combination of substances administered in an emergency to comatose individuals when the cause of the coma ... The coma cocktail is thought to have been created in United States as a first line treatment for an unconscious patient in an ... The coma cocktail is sometimes colloquially referred to as a "party pack" by professionals in the pre-hospital emergency ... At a minimum, the clinical presentation of the patient should rule in or out some portions of the coma cocktail. For example, ...
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  • Leo Gallagher suffered a heart attack last week right before his Texas show and according to Fox News has been in a medically induced coma ever since. (longislandpress.com)
  • He noted the findings apply to patients in a medically induced coma with healthy brains that are receiving blood and oxygen. (livescience.com)
  • Karl-Anthony Towns revealed in an emotional Instagram post late Tuesday night that his mother has been placed in a medically induced coma due to lung problems from COVID-19. (yahoo.com)
  • After a day in which her condition appeared to have taken a turn for the better, her lungs deteriorated to the point that she needed to be placed in a medically induced coma and put on a ventilator. (yahoo.com)
  • Police officer Gabriel Garcia remains in critical condition and in a medically induced coma, police said Thursday. (sbsun.com)
  • Her doctors do not know when she will come out of the coma as it was not medically induced. (extratv.com)
  • Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, the father of undefeated UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, has been put into a medically induced coma in Moscow, the fighter's manager, Ali Abdelaziz, confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. (espn.com)
  • I can confirm Khabib's father is in a medically induced coma," Abdelaziz told ESPN. (espn.com)
  • Covid-19 patients are put into a medically induced coma before being placed on a ventilator. (frapier.net)
  • From the ambulance ride to North Shore University Hospital on New York's Long Island to the day he finally woke from a medically induced coma five weeks later, Panzok doesn't remember a thing. (frapier.net)
  • In fact, general anesthesia is a type of medically induced coma. (frapier.net)
  • Mr. Washington spent three weeks lying in a hospital bed in a medically induced coma… … For Ron Panzok and many patients like him, the battle with COVID-19 didn't end when he left the hospital. (frapier.net)
  • ORLANDO, Fla. - Michael Kevin Rathel has been in a medically-induced coma on a ventilator at Orlando Health battling COVID-19 since April 4. (frapier.net)
  • Jack Allard of Ridgewood, New Jersey is in a medically induced coma more than a week after contracting COVID-19. (frapier.net)
  • Medically induced coma, performed on critically ill patients, has been used for a quarter of a century or more to put the brain in a state of temporary hibernation to allow time for the brain to recuperate. (frapier.net)
  • What Doctors Are Learning From Autopsy Findings of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Patients - … Eddie Case was infected with coronavirus to the extent that he was put on both a respirator and a ventilator before undergoing a medically induced coma … "They were adamant about not covering the long-term ICU," she said. (frapier.net)
  • The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is used to describe the general level of consciousness in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to define broad categories of head injury. (medscape.com)
  • Also see Medscape's Glasgow Coma Scale Calculator . (medscape.com)
  • Two scales of measurement often used in TBI diagnosis to determine the level of coma are the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and the Ranchos Los Amigos Scale (RLAS). (bionity.com)
  • Immediately after receiving a TBI patient, clinicians will often conduct a clinical observation test in conjunction with an indicator metric known as the "Glasgow Coma Scale" (GCS). (mcginnlaw.com)
  • But they found much less evidence that "brain-dead" coma patients in a so called persistent vegetative state (PVS) react to pain. (newscientist.com)
  • After this time, some patients gradually come out of the coma, some progress to a vegetative state , and others die. (bionity.com)
  • 25 It is not known whether soap operas offer a similarly optimistic picture of outcomes of coma, so the goal of this study was to determine how soap operas portray the probability of recovery in coma and persistent vegetative state. (bmj.com)
  • Persistent coma is also called persistent vegetative state. (petplace.com)
  • People who are in a coma for long periods of time generally transition to a vegetative state, and are unlikely to wake up, though miracles have been known to happen. (indiatimes.com)
  • Doctors debate that patients in a vegetative state are awake, not in a coma, but have no awareness because of severe brain damage. (com.pk)
  • Sometimes a coma is induced in patients who are at high risk of brain injury from incidents such as physical trauma, drug overdose or life-threatening seizures. (livescience.com)
  • While a single seizure is not likely to cause a coma, an ongoing episode of seizures prevents the brain from recovering in between episodes, thereby leading to a coma. (indiatimes.com)
  • IV dosage form has a long half-life, so it can be administered once-daily and is the preferred route of administration in patients with myxedema coma because gastrointestinal tract absorption may be compromised. (medscape.com)
  • Patients presenting with myxedema coma may have adrenal insufficiency and stress doses of IV steroids must be administered along with initial thyroid replacement until adrenal function has been determined to be normal. (medscape.com)
  • Immediate administration of intravenous levothyroxine is advised if myxedema coma is suspected. (medscape.com)
  • Myxedema coma. (medscape.com)
  • Waldman SA, Park D. Myxedema coma associated with lithium therapy. (medscape.com)
  • Myxedema and Coma (Severe Hypothyroidism). (medscape.com)
  • A diagnostic scoring system for myxedema coma. (medscape.com)
  • Severe angioedema in myxedema coma: a difficult airway in a rare endocrine emergency. (medscape.com)
  • Ono Y, Ono S, Yasunaga H, Matsui H, Fushimi K, Tanaka Y. Clinical characteristics and outcomes of myxedema coma: Analysis of a national inpatient database in Japan. (medscape.com)
  • IMSEAR at SEARO: Myxedema coma. (who.int)
  • Myxedema coma: a new look into an old crisis. (medscape.com)
  • Yamamoto T, Fukuyama J, Fujiyoshi A. Factors associated with mortality of myxedema coma: report of eight cases and literature survey. (medscape.com)
  • Coma and stupor are serious medical conditions that should be addressed immediately by a veterinarian. (petplace.com)
  • Coma and stupor can be serious, life-threatening medical problems that should be immediately investigated by your veterinarian. (petplace.com)
  • A person in a coma cannot react to events in the environment. (epnet.com)
  • The person looks like they are in a deep sleep, but unlike a sleeping person a person in a coma cannot be woken up through stimulation. (indiatimes.com)
  • In the case of one patient in a drug-induced coma, and in subsequent experiments on cats, the researchers found that after deepening the coma by administering a higher dose of drugs, the silent brain started showing minimum but widespread neural activity across the brain, according to the study published today (Sept. 18) in the journal PLOS ONE. (livescience.com)
  • What are the chances of my step-daughter waking up after a drug-induced coma for trach removal surgery? (empowher.com)
  • With the peculiar 'corona film' Coma , French iconoclast Bertrand Bonello puts the dream theory of philosopher Gilles Deleuze and your brain together in a blender. (filmfestival.be)
  • The outcome for coma depends on the cause, severity, and site of the damage. (medlineplus.gov)
  • We determined the incidence, etiology and outcome of paediatric coma patients in King Fahad Hospital, which is the only referral centre for Al-Hasa region, Saudi Arabia. (who.int)
  • Beynon J, Akhtar S, Kearney T. Predictors of outcome in myxoedema coma. (medscape.com)
  • Predictors of outcome in myxoedema coma: a study from a tertiary care centre. (medscape.com)
  • Hylander B, Rosenqvist U. Treatment of myxoedema coma--factors associated with fatal outcome. (medscape.com)
  • His injuries left him in a ' minimally conscious state ' (MCS), a condition akin to a coma but characterized by occasional, but brief, evidence of environmental and self-awareness that coma patients lack. (bionity.com)
  • Traumatic brain injuries caused by accidents or acts of violence can cause swelling or bleeding in the brain, leading to a coma. (indiatimes.com)
  • Diagnosis of reversible causes of coma. (epnet.com)
  • The collaborators' research into their behavior has helped expand our understanding of some important neurobiological connections between eating and sleep - including the infamous "food coma" felt after a big meal. (bgsu.edu)
  • The cause of the food coma turned out to be protein and salt, along with the time of day the food was consumed. (bgsu.edu)
  • The new study shows "there's a deeper form of coma that goes beyond the flat line, and during this state of very deep coma, cortical activity revives," Amzica said. (livescience.com)
  • The new findings came from a serendipitous observation in a patient who was in a deep coma, and receiving powerful epilepsy medication required to control his convulsions. (livescience.com)
  • A deeper coma alone does not necessarily mean a slimmer chance of recovery, because some people in deep coma recover well while others in a so-called milder coma sometimes fail to improve. (bionity.com)
  • Coma may occur as a complication of an underlying illness, or as a result of injuries, such as brain injury . (medlineplus.gov)
  • Brain scans show that the coma patients that are most aware of their environment react to pain as much as healthy people. (newscientist.com)
  • When a patient's brain falls completely silent, and electrical recordings devices show a flat line, reflecting a lack of brain activity, doctors consider the patient to have reached the deepest stage of a coma. (livescience.com)
  • However, new findings suggest there can be a coma stage even deeper than this flat line - and that brain activity can ramp up again from this state. (livescience.com)
  • As the coma deepens, the EEG device will eventually show a flat line instead of a wave - this stage is considered to be the turning point between a living brain and a deceased brain. (livescience.com)
  • The newly discovered coma state is characterized by electrical waves called Nu-complexes that are unlike other waveforms generated by the brain during known coma states, sleep or wakefulness. (livescience.com)
  • When the cats reached the flat-line coma stage, the researchers increased the anesthetic's dose, and observed brain activity re-emerging in cats. (livescience.com)
  • By reducing the activity in the brain and slowing its metabolism, an induced coma can help protect the neural tissue. (livescience.com)
  • A coma state such as the one discovered in the new experiments may better protect neural tissue, as it maintains some minimum activity throughout the brain, the researchers said. (livescience.com)
  • Time is the best general predictor of a chance of recovery: after 4 months of coma caused by brain damage , the chance of partial recovery is less than 15%, and the chance of full recovery is very low. (bionity.com)
  • Therefore, it was clear that Matt had sustained severe brain damage that was causing severely impaired consciousness-i.e., coma. (brainline.org)
  • Blocked arteries or the bursting of a brain cell can block the flow of blood to the brain, resulting in a coma. (indiatimes.com)
  • Oxygen is necessary for brain function, so lack of it can lead to a coma. (indiatimes.com)
  • An Indian nurse who spent 42 years in a coma as a result of severe brain damage after being raped and strangled has died. (com.pk)
  • A coma is a state of extended unconsciousness due to inefficient brain function. (weaveradvisors.com)
  • Some people with advanced hepatic encephalopathy may lose consciousness and fall into a hepatic coma. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Coma is the absence of alertness or consciousness. (petplace.com)
  • Proceedings of the First Curing Coma Campaign NIH Symposium: Challenging the Future of Research for Coma and Disorders of Consciousness. (bvsalud.org)
  • Coma and disorders of consciousness (DoC) are highly prevalent and constitute a burden for patients , families , and society worldwide. (bvsalud.org)
  • Occasionally people come out of coma after long periods of time. (bionity.com)
  • The initial search strategy used Google, with the search terms "soap opera" and "unconscious" or "coma. (bmj.com)
  • These findings might be objective evidence of a potential pain perception capacity in patients with MCS, which supports the idea that these patients need painkilling treatment," write Steven Laureys and his colleagues at the Coma Science Group of the Cyclotron Research Centre at the University of Liege in The Lancet Neurology . (newscientist.com)
  • Whyte says that coma patients who recover seldom complain of painful events or treatment during their comatose state, but this shouldn't be taken as evidence they never felt pain, because their memories are so impaired during this time that they wouldn't remember anyway even if they did feel pain. (newscientist.com)
  • In comatose patients, depending on the stage of their coma, the waveforms are altered. (livescience.com)
  • Objective To determine how soap operas portray, and possibly misrepresent, the likelihood of recovery for patients in coma. (bmj.com)
  • Factors associated with mortality of patients with myxoedema coma: prospective study in 11 cases treated in a single institution. (medscape.com)
  • ABSTRACT Objective to map the production of knowledge about the different techniques of gastrointestinal tube insertion in critically ill and/or coma patients. (bvsalud.org)
  • After 19 years in a coma, Terry Wallis spontaneously began speaking and regained awareness of his surroundings. (bionity.com)
  • The latest to die was Nikolay Petrunin, 47, dubbed the 'Gas wonderkid', who allegedly died from complications from Covid in mid-October after being in a coma for a month. (newsflash.one)
  • New Rochelle lawyer, 50, who was among first to be diagnosed with coronavirus and passed it on to dozens in New York is in 'an induced coma' … These machines can't fix the terrible damage the virus is causing, and if the virus erupts, the lungs will get even stiffer, as hard as a stale marshmallow. (frapier.net)
  • From Zoom meetings and a Youtube guru called Patricia Coma to Trump tweets and a stop-motion soap with Barbie dolls (voices of, among others, the late Gaspard Ulliel). (filmfestival.be)
  • Coma may result from a variety of conditions, including intoxication, metabolic abnormalities, central nervous system diseases, acute neurologic injuries such as stroke , and hypoxia . (bionity.com)
  • Stig will need to stay in an induced coma for a while to let his body recover from the injuries and surgery. (velonews.com)
  • The severity of coma impairment is categorized into several levels. (bionity.com)
  • two from cerebral coma and four from haemorrhagic shock. (who.int)
  • Coma is a challenging complication of a variety of injuries. (bmj.com)
  • However, others develop chronic hepatitis C. Without treatment, the infection might lead to advanced liver disease and even hepatic coma. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Hepatitis C can lead to liver failure and hepatic encephalopathy, a condition that can occur with or without coma. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • A coma is a deep state of unconsciousness. (medlineplus.gov)
  • In medicine , a coma (from the Greek κῶμα koma , meaning deep sleep) is a profound state of unconsciousness. (bionity.com)
  • A coma is a prolonged state of unconsciousness, wherein a person is unaware of their environment and unresponsive to it. (indiatimes.com)
  • Former ambassador of the Philippines to Qatar Crescente Relacion and members of the Filipino community have expressed their sympathy for Filipino actress Isabel Granada, who was reportedly in a coma and was being treated at the Heart Hospital in Doha. (gulf-times.com)
  • She is currently in the hospital in a coma brought on by a virulent form of meningitis. (extratv.com)
  • is awake after spending two months in a coma, and is "making strides towards recovery" after a health condition landed him in the hospital. (jammin1057.com)
  • Stig Broeckx, who was injured by a crash caused by a race motorcycle, underwent two operations Tuesday and remains in a coma. (velonews.com)
  • Returning to the city near the end of the ensuing European tour, the band recorded performances over three nights creating its first ever official live album, Coma Divine . (burningshed.com)
  • Some people may remain in a coma for years or even decades. (medlineplus.gov)
  • I've been to Sa Coma every year for the last three years and the weather has always been brilliant. (holiday-weather.com)
  • These all belong to the great Coma Cluster of galaxies, a turbulent array of thousands of galaxies (mostly ellipticals and lenticulars) more than 300 million light-years distant. (astronomy.com)
  • He's 13 years old and in a coma. (who.int)