Formula One legend Michael Schumacher has been in an artificially induced coma at the University Hospital in Grenoble since he fell and hit his head while skiing in French Alps on Sunday Dec. 29th.
Doctors say patients with such injuries are placed in artificially induced coma to help the brain heal but such measures normally last only a maximum of two weeks. Schumacher has been in his coma for nearly a month and doctors fear he could remain in a 'permanent vegetative state' even if he wakes from his coma. This means that if doctors do bring him out of his artificially induced coma he would be unable to speak, move or feed himself. Too sad!!
The more he stays in the medically induced coma, the more hope dwindle for a full recovery.
Jean-Marc Orgogozo, Professor of Neurology at the University of Bordeaux,said: 'Every day, every week in a coma the chances decline that the situation is improving. A persistent vegetative state is one in which patients with severe brain damage are in a state of partial arousal rather than true awareness.
As neurosurgeon Colin Shieff wrote, also in the Daily Mirror individuals in a persistent vegetative state “have not died” but “have fairly basic responses.”
They do not respond to things going on outside them but there are events that indicate that there is ‘a person still present.’
“People with Apallic Syndrome do show responses equivalent to waking up, showing anger, hunger or pleasure but not with the consistency that you and I would show.”
Shieff added that in his opinion it is too early for a diagnosis but it is “is correct for doctors to warn his family at this stage.”
In a message posted on Schumacher’s website, his family said it is “deeply touched by all the messages to get well soon for Michael which still are being sent. That gives us strength.
“We all know, he is a fighter and will not give up!”
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