Magnetic field 'aids coma victim
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Rudy S.Posted
Fri 17 Oct 2008 11:13am
BBC NEWS | Health | Magnetic field 'aids coma victim
A US patient left in a coma-like state after a road accident recovered the ability to speak after repeated exposure to a magnetic field.
This is a great story
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Coma or Happy Pills
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davidwwonePosted
Wed 24 Jun 2009 7:01pm
Going to the doctor's tomorrow to see if I can get some happy pills. I was hoping I could be put into a coma for a couple of months but my didn't like the sound of that, quite selfish if you ask me.
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Coma and General Anesthesia Demonstrate Important Similarities
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Ed H.Posted
Sun 02 Jan 2011 3:55pm
The brain under general anesthesia isn’t “asleep” as surgery patients are often told — it is placed into a state that is a reversible coma, according to three neuroscientists who have published an extensive review of general anesthesia, sleep and coma, in the Dec. 30 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. This insight and others reported
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'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear': Man trapped in 23-year 'coma'
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Robert D. M.Posted
Mon 23 Nov 2009 10:00pm
Doctors in Belgium have freed a hospital patient from a 23-year nightmare after discovering the man had been misdiagnosed with a coma.
Rom Houben, now 46, suffered serious injuries in a 1983 car accident, leading doctors to conclude he lived in a persistent vegetative state, but new testing techniques revealed Houben’s brain remained fully
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Candy Coma
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Erinn ..Posted
Tue 27 Jan 2009 6:37pm
It may be just in my head but does fun size twix and snickers and Kit Kats just not taste as good as the full size?
I have done tons of research on this subject this weekend and both my fat ass and I agree that full size is where its at!
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Carb Coma
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Pam TremblePosted
Wed 08 Jul 2009 9:44am
For some the term "Carb Coma" might be something new ... but for those who know it, we hate it and avoid it at all costs. Last night I experience a Carb Coma.
Ok, let me first explain what a Carb Coma is, for those who might not know. I suppose it probably happens to people with normal guts, but I hear about it mostly in relation to RNY folks
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Fight Food Coma
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Billy @ BeerBellyBlogPosted
Mon 10 Nov 2008 4:43pm
and fight off this food coma by talking to people and doing a couple of puzzles just to get my gears turning. Or I could just eat less during lunch.
Rebus puzzle brainteasers offer..., and region must contain only one instance of each number.
Link
I think most of these puzzles and brain teasers help us out of the food coma because they are fun. We all tend to come
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Emerging From the Christmas Coma
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jenslosinitPosted
Tue 28 Dec 2010 5:51am
I don't know about anyone else, but I ate so much sugary foods last week, that by Sunday night I felt like I was in a sugar induced Christmas coma. My fingers were tight and swollen, even my legs were a little swollen. I was sluggish, bloated and just didn't want to do much of anything! I woke up early yesterday morning and it felt SO good to sweat
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hypoxic-ischemic coma prognosis
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EmilyPosted
Tue 14 Oct 2008 5:00am
When you are on you're on your neurology clerkship (or ICU rotations) you will undoubtedly encounter many patients in post-stroke comas. A good physical/neuro exam can help... (independent w/ ADLs) or better
POOR = death, persistent coma until death, or persistent veg state.
< 3hrs
GOOD (41% good, 41% bad)
Eyes: Roving conjugate
Motor: Posturing
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'We Seek Our Own Coma'
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Always CarolPosted
Sat 29 May 2010 10:48am
That's a quote from Chuck Palahniuk's new book called Diary. I know I do, that is, seek my own coma, I don't live my own life so much as weather it. Chuck wrote Fight Club , another dark story about survival, made into a movie that some of my AA friends LOVE.
We all have our own favorite numbing, oops, relaxing habits. I can lose myself in a puzzle
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