A coma is when a person enters a prolonged unconscious state, rendering them unresponsive to touch, light, or sound. While ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Arizona’s Maricopa County identified the latest fatality as Kevin Vallesteros, 29. Honolulu police said he died at ...

Four of five remaining Hawaii patients with severe injuries from the Aliamanu fireworks explosion are now awake, according to the director of the Arizona Burn Center.

First-person, subjective definitions of coma emphasize the absence of inner consciousness or awareness from the perspective of the patient. By contrast, third-person, objective definitions declare ...

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 them to be,” Dr. Foster said.