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01.07.2021 | The CURING COMA CAMPAIGN
The Curing Coma Campaign: Challenging the Paradigm for Disorders of Consciousness
verfasst von:
DaiWai M. Olson, J. Claude Hemphill III, The Curing Coma Campaign and its Executive Committe
Erschienen in:
Neurocritical Care
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Excerpt
Medicine has been concerned with coma since ancient times. The writings of Hippocrates reference
koma, which is Greek for “deep sleep,” and numerous medical writings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries describe patients with deeply impaired consciousness [
1]. We have been working on this for a long time and still have not solved the problem; that is why we need the Curing Coma Campaign (CCC). …