during a six year period (1969-1974), 29,233 records of the hospital admissions were carefully reviewed from the standpoint of age, sex incidence, precipitating factors, method of treatment and results in diabetes and diabetic coma patients in the isfahan university medical school’s hospitals. two hundred and fifty cases of diabetic patients were found (0.8% of the total), from which 25 (8%) we...

background several lines of evidence suggest that early sensory stimulation and regular family visiting programs are potential nursing interventions to improve the outcomes of head injured comatose patients. however, little is known about the impacts of family involvement in providing sensory stimulation. objectives to determine the effects of a sensory stimulation program conducted by nurses a...

Myxoedema coma is a sporadic life-threatening complication of severe hypothyroidism with high mortality. Altered mental status and hypothermia are the main symptoms myxoedema coma. Apart from that, hypoxia, bradycardia, hypotension, anemia, hyponatremia would be present. Few patients present comatose myxoedema. Presenting may mislead diagnosis this condition. A female patient presented fever, b...

The classical definition of coma denotes unarousable unresponsiveness with absent sleep–wake cycles and closed eyes, but comatose patients may defy that by showing eye-opening early after brain injury.

the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a guided family visiting, as an auditory and tactile stimulation, on the consciousness level of comatose head injury patients. a randomized controlled trial design was used. sixty-four comatose head injury patients were randomly allocated into a control group or an intervention group. patients in the intervention group were received audit...