UH- Medical Emergency

A coma is a medical emergency situation when someone is experiencing a State of unconscious within a certain period. Unconsciousness was caused by decreased activity in the brain triggered by certainconditions such as severe brain injury, alcohol poisoning, or infection of the brain (encephalitis).

In addition to not realize the circumstances surrounding, people experiencing a coma generally also can not respond to your voice or pain. Basic body reflexes (such as coughing and swallowing) in coma will be greatly reduced. Most patients are able to breathe spontaneously, but some of them need breathing AIDS.

The level of awareness of sufferers comma depending on how big a part of the brain that are still functioning, and this circumstance usually change over time. When fade is aware, the sufferer will begin to feel the pain, started to realize the State around, and finally was able to communicate. The chances of recovering from a coma is very depending on the cause of the coma itself. But people who are comatosefor a matter of months to years have very little chance to survive.

The cause of the Coma

The following are some of the conditions that can lead to coma, among them:

Stroke. Injuries on the head. Diabetes. Infection in the brain, for example, meningitisdan encephalitis. Poisoning, for example due to carbon monoxide. An overdose of alcohol and/atauKekurangan oxygen. The Tumor on the brain seizures. Liver organ failure (comma hepatikum).

Diagnosis Of Coma
The doctor will do a physical examination as a first step to diagnose a comma, for example:

Check the size of the pupil of the eye. Checking reflexes and movements, such as movement in the eye or voices that may be issued by the sufferer. Check the presence of signs of injury to the head. Check out the patterns of breath sufferers. Check the reaction to pain sufferers.

Before further examination to find out the cause ofthe coma, the doctor will usually ask for information on family, friends, or people nearby from suffererswho know its condition before experiencing the comma. Some of the things it asked physicians include:

The patient's medical history, such as whether he had suffered from a stroke. Signs of losing consciousness that looks and how sufferers lose consciousness, such as whether gradually or suddenly. Symptoms before sufferers experience a comma, such asheadaches, seizures or vomiting. The use of drugs before the comma. Comma before experiencing thesufferer's behavior.

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