2007-02-03 05:12:45 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Actually, there are different levels of a comatose state. Noone knows if people feel pain or not. Sometimes you can suspect that a person in a coma is feeling pain because their heart rate and blood pressure will increase with no other causes. You give pain medication, and it lowers. That is why doctors sill order and nurses still give pain medication for a patient who is in a coma.
2007-02-03 15:58:52 · answer #1 · answered by MadeYouReadThis 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In medicine, a coma (from the Greek koma, meaning deep sleep) is a profound state of unconsciousness. A comatose patient cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to pain or light, does not have sleep-wake cycles, and does not take voluntary actions. Coma may result from a variety of conditions, including intoxication, metabolic abnormalities, central nervous system diseases, acute neurologic injuries such as stroke, and hypoxia. It may also be deliberately induced by pharmaceutical agents in order to preserve higher brain function following another form of brain trauma.
coma is an abnormal state of deep unconsciousness from which a person can't be roused. People in a coma cannot speak, do not respond to commands, and cannot make voluntary movements.
Comas may occur as the result of trauma to the head, disease such as meningitismeningitis, strokestroke, or diabetesdiabetes, or poisoning.
Induced Coma
A temporary coma is sometimes deliberately induced (using drugs) to reduce swelling of the brain after injury. It may also be induced to break the constant overwhelming immune strain being exerted on the body by a severe viral infection, or, by a host of illness which have resulted in extreme chronic illness. Inducing a coma can stop the progression of viral, systemic fungal or bacterial, and Fuireria infections. This has made it possible to reverse the expansion of these illnesses from terminal to recovery.
2007-02-03 05:27:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Regardless of the cause of the coma, no, one doesn't feel pain. Perception of pain takes place in the cerebral cortex, which is shut down in a coma.
2007-02-03 10:47:36 · answer #3 · answered by holey moley 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you feel pain when you sleep? I don't think so, unless someone hits you, but then you're not sleeping anymore.
2007-02-03 05:20:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you dont feel anything ,,,apparently ,,the brain has shut down to heal the body and that is what send messages to the rest of the body ,,no message no pain ,
2007-02-03 05:16:10 · answer #5 · answered by whitecloud 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dunno, poke me and we'll see.
2007-02-03 05:33:12 · answer #6 · answered by taterboy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋