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.

Andre Howard Jr. had just picked up his three children from school and taken them to Dunkin’ Donuts for an evening snack, a ...

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 ...

The presence of a dog can sometimes work wonders. One very special area of application is working with coma patients. All it takes is for the therapy dogs to lie beside them and keep them company.

Objective: Recent clinical studies have demonstrated that advanced age and low initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score were independent predictors of gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) in patients with ...

This prospective study was undertaken to examine the reliability of a set of clinical criteria adopted in Taiwan. One hundred and forty deeply comatose patients (101 men, 39 women; mean age 49.5 (SD ...

Even though all six patients are still intubated and in a medically induced coma, they are “all on course” to recovery, said ...

Since she's white, we called her Clarinha.” The team considered the patient's coma high. “We classify coma on a scale of three to fifteen points. Fifteen is when the patient is awake and lucid ...

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 ...

The 18-year-old, who suffers from Cerebral Palsy and Scoliosis, was told there were no beds available and placed in the ...

The state's health department appointed medical experts to the secondary medical board to decide when life-sustaining treatment can be stopped for terminally ill patients ...

Experts say cases like Wallis's, where the patient is able to talk fairly freely ... where Terry spent most of his time in the coma, say regular contact at weekends and special occasions with ...