What's it like to be in a coma

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Coma is a very common symptom. Coma is a phenomenon that a person loses his consciousness. Generally speaking, coma includes mild coma, moderate coma, severe coma, and excessive coma. Now let's talk about what it's like to be in a coma.

What's it like to be in a coma

First, according to the degree, it can be divided into: shallow coma. The patients responded to strong pain stimulation, basic physiological reaction existed, and vital signs were normal. Moderate coma. The response to pain disappeared, the physiological response existed, and the vital signs were normal. Deep coma. Except for vital signs, the others disappeared.

Second: excessive coma. Brain death. Brain death refers to the irreversible loss of brain function including brain stem. Coma is only due to severe damage to the cerebral cortex or sudden inhibition, the patient can have spontaneous breathing, heartbeat and brain stem reaction, while brain death has no spontaneous breathing, which is permanent and irreversible.

Third: coma is in a state of no response to external stimuli, often with rapid changes in vital signs. And can't be awakened to know themselves or the surrounding environment, is the most serious disturbance of consciousness, that is, continuous total loss of consciousness; is also one of the main manifestations of brain failure.

matters needing attention

Patients in a coma, may be slow to respond to external stimuli, or no response. But when in a coma, the patient's heart will beat and breathe. If you find that someone around you is in a coma, you should take corresponding on-site first aid measures in time.