How do medically induced comas work?
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What do you mean? It’s a coma that’s medically induced with drugs. They keep you out as long as needed and then when they’re ready they turn off the drugs keeping you in a coma and you wake up, hopefully
“Medically induced coma” is kind of a vague term and is not really used outside of the lay public.
Ultimately, different drugs are given that result in a person being having a decreased level of consciousness. That is the answer in a nutshell.
More specifically, the answer depends on why somebody is given sedating medication and what level of sedation they are trying to achieve.
You put somebody in very deep sedation for surgery so the brain is unaware of the painful thing that is happening.
You might put somebody in deep sedation after a severe brain injury for an entirely different reason.
Medically induced coma does a few things:
* reduces brain activity which contributes to swelling (the primary threat) and inhibits healing.
* prevents the patient’s damaged brain from causing potential self-harmful instinctive behaviours such as flailing limbs or removing IV’s or breathing tubes.
* reduces patient suffering
Induced coma is akin to — but differs somewhat from — indefinite anesthesia.
Have a relative, who is in the mental health care business. Had told my sister that while working at one place they had a patient who was reportedly bitten by a spider, and had started screaming nonstop in sheer terror like fashion. Patient was treated for the bite, but the terror screams never stopped and they had to sedate them. And according to her, they wake them up to see if any change has occurred only to have to sedate them for their own safety.
It’s a story told to me by my sister, No idea if any of it is true or false really sad if true
My dad was put in one and hooked up to as many machines as possible to keep him alive. The only thing working for itself was his heart. The reason being that they wanted his body to focus on that one task of keeping the heart beating whilst they covered the rest allowing him to heal and gain strength.
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