Word: comas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early September Potter will discuss unsettled problems, like what to do about someone in irreversible coma, in The Villanova Law Review. He will say that the report shifts the definition of death from the intuitive to one of sharply calibrated expertise...
Last Hours. While Kennedy lay dying, neurosurgeons recalled cases in which less extensive damage to a combination of these vital areas had not prevented partial or full recovery?even after weeks of coma. Since Kennedy was righthanded, the undamaged left side of his brain was more critical to his body control. In some cases, therapy has helped brain-injured patients to train the less dominant side of the brain to take over. Such cases are rare, and for Robert Kennedy, the damage had been too extensive even for survival. Twelve hours after the operation, the recordable brain waves ceased...
...Christian Cabrol, 42, on the faculty of the University of Paris since age 26, and a specialist in artificial-heart research. An hour after the operation, Roblain's blood pressure dived to near zero. Emergency measures restored it to near normal, but Roblain remained in a coma until his death 51 hours after the operation. The autopsy showed that many formerly immobile blood clots, set free by the unwontedly strong pumping action of the new heart, had traveled to his lungs and blocked circulation there...
Medical regulations can also stand in the way of proper emergency treatment. When former Speaker of the House Joe Martin fell into a coma in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last month, his doctor ordered an ambulance service to take him to a distant hospital, by passing one eight blocks away because the doctor was not affiliated there. Reported dead by the ambulance driver when he arrived, Martin, 83, was then taken to a third hospital, 15 miles away, for an autopsy. There he was officially pronounced dead on arrival. His life might have been saved had he been taken...
...Nobel prize in physics (for his theories on :he behavior of matter at low temperatures), "Dau" also helped his country develop nuclear weapons and contributed to the Soviet space program. In 1962, his car plowed into a truck, leaving him with such severe injuries that he was in a coma for 57 days and clinically dead on four occasions. Eventually he recovered enough to say, "I can talk to friends, but I do not have the courage to resume other activities...