defining the patient outcome and decision making about allocation of our limited fund and technology for comatose patients depends on our knowledge about frequency and outcome of various coma etiologies. we determined the various coma causes frequency and one-month outcome of non traumatic coma. . in addition the co existence of the primary neurologic signs with the one-month outcome of non tra...

background traumatic brain injury (tbi) is an important public health problem throughout the world. objectives the aim of this study was to assess repeated glasgow coma scale (gcs) scores in predicting the severity of tbi and patients’ survival. patients and methods in this longitudinal study used a total sample of 239 patients, all of whom were hospitalized with traumatic brain injuries. subje...

when a child presented with decreased level of consciousness in the emergency room, taking the right approach is one of the most important skills that every emergency physician should have. ideally, there should be a defined diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm in the emergency room for managing these children in order to minimize difficulties diagnostically and maximize time spent helping the ...

extract  although there are new ways to portray the brain, colored and computerized encephalography but coma is still unknown and such as death remain beyond comprehension and knowing. is not it ?   perhaps because of this, despite knowing that some part of the brain is not yet fully understood all its parts. but knowing the components that working to each other is key for discovering a lot of ...

extract   when you are faced with a diabetic person that has been numbness, lethargic or confuse condition and likely to enter into a diabetic coma what nursing interventions should be done?   the answer of question is related to complete review of symptoms by nurses. typically, in the most cases hypoglycemia can cause coma. the next cause of coma is diabetic ketoacidosis that occurs with hyper...

conclusions toxic causes with an incidence of 49.6% were the most common cause of loss of consciousness among all age groups. results among the 123 children under investigation, 76 cases were male (61.8%) and 47 females (38.2%) with the mean age of 3.2 ± 0.64 years. the most common causes of loss of consciousness among children were as follows: toxic causes in 61 patients (49.6%), infectious ca...