Word: comas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even as the new Premier was sworn in, Salazar, the victim of a massive stroke, clung to life. But the 79-year-old dictator had been in a coma for ten days, and his doctors had informed President Americo Deus Rodrigues Tomás that he would never recover sufficiently to resume office. Faced with a serious drift in government affairs and rumors that the military might step in, Tomás finally called on Caetano to form a government...
...other European political leader in this century. Early this month, after injuring his head in a fall from a deck chair, Salazar, 79, underwent surgery for removal of a blood clot on his brain. Last week he lay near death after a massive stroke that left him in a coma and partly paralyzed. After decades of his monolithic rule, the Portuguese seemed in paralysis as well...
Blood Exchange. With all this in mind, the South Africans confronted the case of Mrs. Mary Voogt, a 29-year-old nurse and mother of two children who was brought to Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital last July in a deep coma. Only a few days before, she had suffered a miscarriage. Early in her pregnancy, she had contracted severe hepatitis, and it left her liver badly damaged. Doctors tried seven blood exchanges, giving her body an entirely new supply of blood each time. Yet there was no noticeable improvement, and finally they turned in desperation...
...documents were remarkably similar. Although the Sydney assembly could not agree on a precise definition of death, there is now a virtually worldwide consensus on the following criteria for establishing that irreversible coma, or death, has indeed occurred...
...face, this language appeared to rule out the prompt transplantation of an accident victim's heart, but the committee felt that it was necessary to cover a few special cases. A victim of barbiturate poisoning may recover full brain function after 24 hours, or even longer, in deep coma. But in cases of massive head wounds, said Neurosurgeon William Sweet, a member of the committee, the brain damage would be the dominant consideration. Then the physician might decide, long before 24 hours had elapsed, that all hope was gone...