I would like to know from other people's experience about some signs that they have seen and that have led to the recovery ? and what was the recovery like ...
2006-09-03 21:01:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
Heart attacks seldom induce a coma. There may be a period of unconsciousness but seldom a coma. As a physician, I do use opiates or other narcotics to control pain but also to induce a comatose state to both sedate the patient and relieve anxiety. A heart attack (myocardial infarction) is a major crisis both physically but also emotionally. If your physician is doing the same, then recovery from the 'coma' will simply be an awakening as from a deep sleep. However, I suggest you talk to the physician in detail about what has really occurred. Many physicians talk down to relatives as not being capable of understanding the causative factors and give simple answers. I, too am guilty of this, as some things are very difficult to explain to persons not able to comprehend the anatomy and physiology...it is not to say we think you to be stupid, but to explain some of the details is very difficult. For example if I use the word 'wood'...it is totally understandable to you but if I use fibrovascular bundles...I might lose you....it is not intentional but I might do it for convenience, or more likely to simplify so you can catch the idea. But, it is important for you to completely understand the diagnosis and insist that you or the family understand what the physician is saying. A heart attack is an area of the heart muscle that has been deprived of oxygen and an area of the muscle is now dead...it will heal...but we have to allow time for the muscle to re-grow...so slow recovery is needed (reduced activity) and slow return to normal life. I had a patient once that had a heart attack and after he stabilized refused to believe he had had a heart attack, and I had no choice but to keep him sedated...just to keep him quiet and in bed....literally he was mildy comatose.
2006-09-04 00:25:30 · answer #1 · answered by Frank 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coma After Heart Attack
2016-11-14 09:14:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was in a coma for 3 days after I had a heart attack and my blood sugars went sky high.
For me I just woke up one minute, it was like I wake up in the morning but just 3 days later. I was sooo tired I went back to sleep for another few days but not in a coma state
How long has he been in a coma?
Talk to him, read to him, leave the TV on, do not make it comfie for him to sleep. when all of you are in the room talk loud and laught lots make him want to join you. When I woke up my family was in the room talking so loud I told them to shut up (I don't remember doing that, but thats what my husband said)
Good Luck & God Bless your family.
PS being in a come is a healing process and it takes time.
2006-09-04 00:07:32 · answer #3 · answered by omapat 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My grandfather was in a coma. A good sign of improvement is brain activity. There are different shapes to brain activity so it depends. Ask his doctor to findout. If his hands and arms start to curve inward and become tight it's a bad sign. It's a difficult situation. My grandfather didn't recover.
2006-09-03 21:11:54 · answer #4 · answered by Daniel G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my mom had 5 heart attacks and was in intensive care for 14 days and she was in a coma we thought we would lose her but she pulled threw just pray and everything will be fine i will pray for you she asked god to take away the urge to smoke away and he did she hasn't smoked since then and is healthy now she has 2
stents in her heart now this is very hard to go though but youll' make it i promise. god bless you my mom is still here, she witnessed the birth of her first grandson her first grandchild
2006-09-10 18:08:15 · answer #5 · answered by Tonia G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
movement of hands and feet noises like moaning sort of. Coma is not like on TV they don't wake up like a light switch off and on. "Waking up" some times takes a few days worth of small steps
2006-09-03 21:04:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, I have no idea. Just a note to let you know that you will have prayers for your dad and you from some of us on this site.
2006-09-03 21:09:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
don`t know the signs but the doc told us to talk to him so every day one of us would go to see him and talk to him about the past and the fun we had he lost some of his memories but still OK to do most of the natural things that he did before it happened
2006-09-03 21:09:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Need not to worry I have seen thousands of cases pulling out of this type of condition, your better pray for him, OK.
2016-04-07 07:42:50 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brainwave activity just changes and conscious state returns shortly after.
2006-09-03 21:04:17 · answer #10 · answered by ★Greed★ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋