Question about coma and risk in returning to a coma?!
Question: I've heard that a person who has been in a coma previously, is a higher candidate to go into a coma again. Specifically if a person has surgery and goes into a coma, how likely is it that they will go back into a coma during a subsequent surgery.
My understanding is that this is true. But can someone shed some factual information on this issue?
I have a friend who has been in a coma more than once and some people are skeptical that this could be true.
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Answers: I've heard that a person who has been in a coma previously, is a higher candidate to go into a coma again. Specifically if a person has surgery and goes into a coma, how likely is it that they will go back into a coma during a subsequent surgery.
My understanding is that this is true. But can someone shed some factual information on this issue?
I have a friend who has been in a coma more than once and some people are skeptical that this could be true.
Thanks in advance for your answers.
I don't know all that much about comas specifically, but medical situations do tend to repeat themselves, especially where chronic illness is present.
Our bodies all have their own fingerprints of weaknesses and strengths which affect how they respond to trauma. Your friend's response patterns include appear to include coma. (Anesthesia is going to be a huge burden on her detoxification system, which is already overloaded because of the kidney problems. It will necessarily stay in her system longer and it will be tricky to for the doctors to get the balance right. This was her second surgery within a week as well and she hadn't recovered from the first. In other words, plenty of risk factors.)
What I've observed of this crisis as it has unfolded is completely within normal parameters.
If I understand correctly, she had transplant surgery before, right? Immunosuppressant drugs will seriously change the was everything goes. It seems well within the norm to me.