Coma Essays

this scenario, you and your spouse are admitted to the hospital after experiencing a car crash. You are severely injured, but are expected to make a full recovery; on the other hand, your spouse has taken serious head trauma and has fallen into a coma with little brain activity. Five years later, your spouse is in a comatose and is still in the same state as they were when admitted to the hospital. All of the charts and opinions from doctors say your spouse will most likely be in a comatose for

Stages of Coma Throughout the years, many patients have had severe brain injuries that led them to lose precious time of their lives due to unconsciousness. Some of these patients are lucky enough to recover quickly within a few days after the accident while others have a slower recovery that extend through different stages. These stages are among the misunderstood conditions that are thought to be coma; however, coma is only the first stage. Before patients regain their full consciousness

Canada. He suffered from traumatic brain injury (TBI). Alan was rushed to the hospital in Kingston via a helicopter. While taking him to the hospital Alan was seizing. Alan and his family spend some days at the hospital while Alan was in coma. After Alan recovered from coma, family shifted to the hospital in Philadelphia. His recovery took his wife and child thru a road of so many ups and downs of emotions. “Where is the Mango Princess?” details emotional and frustrations of a caregiver to their patient

As modern medicine has advanced and the use of life sustaining technology has become more mainstream, a greater number of families and doctors are being faced with an important decision; when to use artificial organs, and when to shut them off. It’s a decision that haunts people long after it is made (Park). The topic of whether or not life support should be used for long periods of time to sustain brain dead patients is heavily debated. Many believe that brain death, a condition in which one loses

The lads were trapped and they knew pretty well that the old man will not give up so easily. Highly intoxicated, they were not in any mood to compromise their freedom which meant finding a way out of the tight situation they were in, and the only road out of the neighbourhood was blocked by this gutsy old man, Steven Ng Teen Cheong. It was a classic OK Corral showdown again but instead of being the famous Marshal Wyatt Earp of Tombstone, Arizona packing a six shooter firearm it was Steven Ng, the

INTRODUCTION Despite the fact that we are now approaching the 44th anniversary of the publication of the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)1, there is still a debate that exists for the indication and yield of neuroimaging for minor head trauma. Head trauma in children is one of the most common reasons for visiting emergency department with more than 95% of these constitute minor head trauma, defined as Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score greater than or equal to 13. Among these patients, less than 10% have traumatic brain

felt at peace. I prayed to get my Dad back and that he had all of his capacities. I had the feeling the doctors were wrong. He was in a medically induced coma for five days. Every day that passed became increasingly hopeful. Finally, on the fifth day he emerged from his coma. And he was 100% himself. So much so, when he came out of the coma he was yelling that

Forensic imaging, particularly MRI technology is crucial in determining the cause of death in forensic pathology. There are a few main techniques for forensic imaging, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT), and conventional radiography. The PMCT is generally used for gunshot wounds, detection of gas embolism, trauma cases, and changes in the skeletal system. Some advantages of this technique are that it is fast, easy to handle, good three-dimensional reconstruction

connections with them. Children who have experienced comas or physical disabilities such as Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) need occupational therapy. I have always known that I wanted to do something meaningful with my life that included pediatrics, but I never knew exactly what I wanted to do with children until I went through my own trauma. In 2012, due to a rare case of pneumonia, I went into respiratory arrest, and the doctors put me into an induced coma. I contracted this pneumonia during one of my senior

Random fact Ninjas are not killing machines they are very stealthy and hide not fight they do assassinate sometimes and they also don't eat meat because of body odor and they also were small people and they wore navy blue not black because jumping in front of the moon in all black makes a silhouette they also used cool inventions like water shoes and exotic weapons and different elements like water,fire,etc for hiding and distraction. You learned something even though that had nothing to do with

difference between coma, vegetative state, and minimally- conscious state?

Potential Causes of Death for Anna Garcia Stroke is a potential cause of death for Anna Garcia. Hispanic, thirty-eight year old, Anna Garcia expired due to a stroke. At one point in Anna Garcia's life she was diagnosed with type one diabetes. Due to the potential for high blood glucose levels, diabetes itself is a risk factor for stroke. Anna Garcia’s cardiologist had Anna complete cardiac testing. Anna underwent a treadmill stress test. Drastic increases in blood pressure occurred for the

It is important to think about the consequences the choice will have on ones self and others once the choice is made. Mia’s family gets into a car crash, and her parents and brother pass away. She is then the only one left from her family, and is a coma because of the accident. Over the course of the novel If I Stay by Gayle Forman, Mia discovers that life is a gift it is important to spend time with your loved ones before it’s to late. Mia is not that concerned about spending time with her family

through a near death experience. Eben Alexander’s authority as a neurosurgeon describes his near death experience that will maybe help scientists and their theory of an afterlife. He argues that his shared experiences while he was in his seven day coma was not a form of an illusion. He wants to prove to everyone what he went through was real. I consider the genre of the book to be an autobiography. The academic conversation that the book is contributing is the idea that there is an afterlife from

are sixteen years old and are pregnant. The way Bobby finds out about the baby is Nia is sitting on his front porch with a red balloon. we eventually find out that after the birth, Nia goes in to a coma. Nia experience eclampsia, which is a seizure during a woman's pregnancy. while Nia is in the coma, Bobby has to take care of Feather. Adding on to the stress, he has to wake up every night to take care of Feather, then he has to take her to the babysitter and head to school, and then finally work

“Death” Mini-Essay Thomas Nagel’s “Death” has a central theme that is addressed. Nagel explores the idea that if death is a lasting and permanent end to our lives on earth, it could be bad. Nagel uses this theme and goes on to give two possible arguments. In the first argument, Nagel explains that life is all we really have in the end and because death puts an end to our life, it must be our greatest loss in life. The second position he takes is that the person who actually dies will not experience

Before watching the Goodbye, Lenin! and That was the GDR-A History of the Other Germany: I was a Citizen of the GDR and We are the People, my image of West Berlin and East Berlin wasn’t very clear. I saw East Germany as just bad people who built the Wall around the West Berliners to not let them spread their views to the other parts of Germany and I saw West Berlin as more of a laid back more liberal area. These films definitely help clear my confusion on the two areas and the struggle between them

on the bed is actually in coma because of this line “I hold onto you like an unopened present”. I get this kind of image in my mind because every time you get a present you are always eager to open it you just can not wait, so this other person who is there holding into the one who is in coma is just waiting for the time where that person is going to open his eyes and wake up. In the last line I can say that it has been quite a long time since the person has been in coma just waiting to come

For example, someone with a Glasgow coma score of three is likely to be in a deep coma whereas someone with a score of fifteen in the Glasgow coma score is fully alert. Traumatic brain injuries usually fall under these scores on the Glasgow coma scale, "Thirteen to fifteen Mild TBI, nine to twelve moderate TBI, and one to eight severe TBI" (Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury, 2013.) There are three states of consciousness: Minimally-conscious, semi-coma, and coma. These stages become more severe as

plastic bags, and “peaceful pills.” In the method of injections, the doctor first injects one injection to put the person in a coma, and then the doctor uses the second injection to stop the heart. In the method of drugs, the doctor will prescribe drugs to the patient that will kill him/her. However there have been cases of individuals taking the pills, going into comas, and waking up with serious side effects because the prescription was suppose to kill that individual. In the method of starvation