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Q: When a person is in a coma or brain dead can they hear you speak to them and are they aware that you are there with them?
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Does inflammation of the brain necessarily mean that person is in a coma?

No. Exams of patients with encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) usually reveal a drowsy or confused patient but not in a coma. A person in a coma state can not be aroused.


How would one get a brain injury coma?

There are several different ways a person can end up in a coma due to a brain injury. A person can go into a coma if the brains swells or bleeds after the injury.


In coma will the brain have waves?

The brain is constantly working even if a person is in a coma. The only reason this would change is because the person has gone brain dead and the brain is no longer producing waves of activity.


When a person suffered a stroke and falls into a sleep-like coma and the damaged is somewhere in the brain stem which structure is most likely damaged?

When a stroke effects the brain stem it effects the whole body locking them in that sleep-like coma state. Blood flow is restricted to the brain and the entire brain is impacted. The person effected will not be able to speak, see, or function below the neck area.


What is the duration of a diabetic coma?

Our Son had 2 low blood sugar diabetic coma, he is type 1. The first time he was in a coma for 5 weeks and came out of it with some memory loss and brain damage. The second was 2 years later and he was in a coma for 5 weeks and slowly became aware and awake but had severe brain damage to the point of retardation, could not form words or speak, cannot follow instructions, cannot walk or crawl or climb on his own, cannot feed himself or take care of his bodily functions.


What causes clawing in hands with a person in a coma?

Any brain damage obtained before the state of coma is what causes clawing hands during a coma. This is what is commonly called a vegetative state.


When a person suffered a stroke and falls into a sleeplike coma and the damaged is somewhere in the brain stem which structure is most likely damaged?

Stroke damage is always somewhere in the brain. However, you cannot say that every person who has had a stroke and is in a coma has had the stroke in the same part of the brain. Strokes can affect just about any area of the brain.


What is coma?

A coma is a deep state of unconsciousness, your brain is at its lowest activity level.


Is a patient in a induced c aware of the situation.?

Is a patient in a induced coma aware of her surrounding.


What would occur if your brain stopped working?

You will be brain dead!! coma


Does a coma patient have brain activity?

Since a coma is just going to sleep and never waking up, a coma shouldn't cause brain damage. It is just that the brain is in a permanent mode of sleep in which the victim cannot be aroused.


Where does the soul go when a person is in a coma?

the soul is still trapped in the body it is when u are considered dead or brain dead did the soul actually leave cause there is no radio waves in the brain and there is suppodes to be a chamber in the brain that proves its there