Word: comas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cause has been identified, but the syndrome has been linked to viral illness, commonly striking its young victims as they recover from chicken pox or influenza. The symptoms, described by Australian Pathologist R.D.K. Reye in 1963, are severe vomiting, followed by lethargy and later by personality changes, convulsions, coma and even death. The syndrome is rare. Last year fewer than 600 cases occurred in the U.S., mostly during the flu months of January, February and March. Both the public and physicians are becoming more familiar with the illness, and children are now hospitalized earlier for the intensive care they need...
Thomas Allen, Chi Psi's vice president, remained in a coma this week with a fractured skull and injuries to his face and neck. He has not regained consciousness since the October 18 incident...
...range of 104° to 106°, the brain swells and thinking becomes fuzzy. Gradually, the body becomes dehydrated, losing important electrolytes and the ability to cool itself. Then the blood flows sluggishly, and kidneys and other major organs begin shutting down; eventually the victim sinks into a coma and is susceptible to cardiac arrest...
...president of the London Judo Club and was never one to skip a few innings at the Marylbone Cricket Club. But soon the heart attacks started coming, the first in 1964, and then nearly every other year until Tuesday night, when his heart simply deteriorated. He slipped into a coma while lunching at the Dorchester Hotel and died four hours later...
...such as chlorpromazine and haloperidol, are the main form of treatment. Because the Soviet pharmaceutical industry is small and cautious, it is slow to put new drugs into production. Soviet hospitals and dispensaries frequently treat schizophrenia with insulin shock therapy. After an insulin injection cuts blood sugar and induces coma, the patient is revived with glucose-a procedure repeated 20 or 30 times...