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__**Vegetative coma:**__
Christa Lilly - from Colorado - put in a vegetative coma in 2000 after suffering from a heart attack and stroke - Vegetative coma: looks like they are asleep Her case was in the media because she awoke 6 years later - has come out of the stroke 4 other times - can't explain why and comes and goes from these states ( awake and back to a coma) - Euthanasia: remove the feeding tube for they can die - Kate Adamson: paralyzed powerless - mother of 2 - suffered a double brain stem stroke - in a coma for 70 days - came out of coma state - 2003- o'reailly factor - feeding tube was pulled but she was still alive, suffering for days while in her vegetative state - During surgery she wasn't giving enough pain medication or

- irreversible end of the brain activity - body functions such as lungs and heat keeps going with help of medication - confessed with persistent vegetative state criteria: - no responce to pain, nerve reflexes, no spontaneous respiration - doctors can keep someones body alive even though the brain is dead
 * BRAIN DEAD:**

- follows coma - last much longer than coma - more than 1 month (PVS) more than a year (permanent) - more emerge after only a few weeks, but the longer it last the lower the chances... - the brain: damage to the cerebral hemisphere - cognitive function: can't speak or think - patients are unconscious and unaware, inable to interact - cant control bladder -some movements may occor.. opening of eyes - causes: traumatic damage: - powerful impact to the skull - no treatment options must be kept under close watch and care - have to be on an IV or tube for food - bathing - have to be turned a lot because you are in a bed for soooo long
 * Vevetative state:**

Dec. 1995 - went into a burning building whih collapsed - trapped without oxygen - in coma for 2 months - wasnt able to reconize anyone - went back in coma -work for a second time - he then sliped bacl into coma where he would remain for 10 years - in vegetative state -moved to a nursing home -had no memory, could barely see - after medication, woke again on April 30th - has some memories -brain cells dies because there was no oxygen to them for a long time - has very little movement - He died Feb 21, 2006 coma: no sleep-wake cycles unaware closed eyes How to prevent coma: wear seat belt play in safe areas A person with come is still alive after a coma: some are able to return in a normal life very slow recovery therapy is often needed
 * Donald Hubert:**
 * Coma vs: vegetative state:**

Iraq: 2,100 soildiers have benn dianosed with TBI 150,00 suffer from mild TBI 64% of the totalt soldiers experience some sort of brain injury Jose story: - fell 20 ft during lookout duty - TBI changes: short term memory loss, long term memry loss, obsessive compulsive disorder, 8 different medications, anti- depressants, almost OD'ed twice simply because he forgot what he said head injuries from combat - military is responsible for the growing number of head injures - EVEN's sotyr: 3 months in treatment - blowed in the head - couldnt walk or talk again - 30,000$ so far - in wheel-hair family will have spend money to make home wheelchair accesable - EFFECTS of the brain after iraq - body armor to protect - the head is the weakest spot for soilders - helments are the best that the are do to portect hear - TBI _ vary for recovery - A shaken up brain results in the person not knowing any of the family or appearing to the act like an infant - 2003-2007 - 437 cases have been reported - half of these cases are people not being able to come back normal - Sympotms: headaces, loss of memory, loss of problme solving abilities - doctores need more research - having to reteach soilders the basics - U.S. WW11 - caused cancer THe korean war had bad circulation to due to hard wilds and climates - military hospitals dont have the funding they need to help troops - Bob woodruff went to iraw to cover and report - he was