Both in movies and in real life, after someone has a life threatening injury or illness it isn’t uncommon for doctors/medical professional to induce a coma to the patient.
I understand that while in a comatose state, your body consumes resources slower and it would basically allow doctors time to operate and repair whatever is ailing the body.
But if your body wanted to go into a comatose state, wouldn’t it do it on its own as a defense mechanism to keep you alive? When is there a situation to induce one on a patient, even if the patients body is not doing it as protection itself?
In: Biology
A medically induced coma is used to slow brain activity after servere brain injuries. At that point the more active your brain is in the more follow up damage will be caused. Like when you try to use a broken limb. The coma gives the brain a chance to outheal the damage.
> But if your body wanted to go into a comatose state, wouldn’t it do it on its own as a defense mechanism to keep you alive?
Your body never really wants anything. It has misfireing mechanisms to stimuli. If your body ‘wanted’ to be alive why not eject cancer cells?
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