Catalog
Coma
Link to WHO Definition
Coma – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1328725971
Acute state lasting more than one hour and usually less than a month. The comatose patient is unresponsive, lying with their eyes closed and cannot be aroused even by vigorous and noxious stimuli. Motor responses to noxious stimulation are limited to reflexive behaviour. Etiologies include but are not limited to traumatic, anoxic, infectious, neoplastic, vascular, inflammatory and metabolic brain injuries.