Subjective definitions of coma emphasize the absence of inner consciousness or awareness from the perspective of the patient. Objective definitions of coma consider a certain set of external signs ...

Increase of ICP is an important issue relating to children in a comatose state. Several reports account that there is an age-dependent susceptibility to brain swelling in this age-related population.

Coma patients who woke up with shocking changes ©Getty Images A coma is when a person enters a prolonged unconscious state, rendering them unresponsive to touch, light, or sound.

A patient lying in a vegetative state for over 3 years woke up after being administered a sleeping pill, given to assuage a spell of restlessness A patient lying in a vegetative state for over 3 ...

Kevin Foster, Director of the Arizona Burn Center. Even though all six patients are still intubated and in a medically induced coma, they are “all on course” to recovery and are “exactly where we want ...

The post comes as UnitedHealthcare is the target of public outrage because of its high denial of claims. Its 50-year-old CEO Brian Thompson was killed on December 4 in New York by accused Luigi ...

What is your goal? GHAJAR: Physicians caring for patients with severe head injury used to think that when the person came in in a coma after severe-head injury, that the first injury, the original ...