coma Betydning & definition

Eksempler på coma

• It is a syndrome lying on a continuum between full consciousness and deep coma.

• The level of consciousness, the position on the continuum between full consciousness and deep coma, is determined by the alertness of the individual.

• These vary from a delirium, causing more or less anxiety, to definite meninjtis producing rapid and stupor and ultimately, coma.

• Metastatic cancer in-uences coma only indirectly, through brain tumour and increased total serum calcium.

• He lapsed brief ly into a coma and died.

• He remained in a coma for 16 months.

• He claims that a constantly neutral life may be as bad as a life lived in coma throughout.

• Conversely, those not in coma with more s uperficial bleeds may have more t o gain f rom a surgical opinion.