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It has been six years since a life-altering car crash on Sept. 25, 2017, left this Michigan mom in a nearly five-year coma from which doctors thought she would never wake up.
Woke up after being in a coma for 12 years after a suicide attempt. Leonard Lowe: 1920s-? 1939 >30 years 1969 American: Fell into a catatonic stupor resulting from encephalitis lethargica. In 1969, Dr. Oliver Sacks managed to awaken him and a few other Spanish flu-related catatonic patients using a medication called levodopa or L-dopa. After a ...
An induced coma – also known as a medically induced coma (MIC), barbiturate-induced coma, or drug-induced coma – is a temporary coma (a deep state of unconsciousness) brought on by a controlled dose of an anesthetic drug, often a barbiturate such as pentobarbital or thiopental.
A sixth-season episode of "Grey's Anatomy", "State of Love and Trust," involves a patient waking up during removal of an abdominal tumor, and retaining full memory of the event. Under: a 2006 film about anesthetic awareness. 2014 Bollywood movie Heartless – the patient experienced full awareness during heart transplant.
A Texas mother was “clinically dead” for 45 minutes after successfully delivering triplets during a planned C-section following a “catastrophic” medical occurrence that usually’s ...
A 50-year-old man was charged with murder after being accused of killing his mom, California officials said. In January, Richard Towers of Santa Ana called 911 and said his 82-year-old mother wasn ...
Propofol infusion syndrome (PRIS) is a rare syndrome which affects patients undergoing long-term treatment with high doses of the anaesthetic and sedative drug propofol. It can lead to cardiac failure , rhabdomyolysis , metabolic acidosis , and kidney failure , and is often fatal.
For two weeks, the little girl did not wake up. Three more passed until she spoke. Before she was rushed to the hospital on Jan. 15, 2022, 4-year-old Bella Hopkins spent several hours bleeding ...