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Comatose State and Patients

Comatose State and Patients. Ailey Kim. “ The German film, Goodbye, Lenin! , romanticizes and depicts the illness, which is coma, and its patient less clearly therefore it is explicitly problematic because people will believe wrong medical depiction as reliable facts.”.

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Comatose State and Patients

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  1. Comatose State and Patients Ailey Kim

  2. “The German film, Goodbye, Lenin!, romanticizes and depicts the illness, which is coma, and its patient less clearly therefore it is explicitly problematic because people will believe wrong medical depiction as reliable facts.”

  3. …inaccurate representations of coma in the films like Goodbye, Lenin! will have an effect on people's understand of coma and expectations about recovery. Dr. EelcoWijdicks at the Mayo Clinic

  4. The literature is [and the films are] to imitate life, a reliable version of a world. • “it might be the world of a set of people in a culture or of a whole society” (Acheson 5-6).

  5. “The German film, Goodbye, Lenin! romanticizes the illness and its patient and therefore this can be problematic due to its possibility of conveying wrong medical information to the viewers. However, the film has certain reasons or purposes with its less obvious depiction as all other literature and films do with how and why they are written or made in certain ways.”

  6. What is Coma? • Adeep state of unconsciousness; an individual is not able to react to his or her environment • Unable to respond to stimulation consciously • Caused by an underlying illness, or result from head trauma • Not simply asleep • The brain wave activity differs from that of a sleeping person

  7. May not respond to external stimuli depending on how deep the coma is • May show abnormal body movements. • May lie still and not respond to anything, or may move spontaneously: shaking, tremors, and jerking movements • The eyes may move abnormally • If the breathing muscles are affected, the patient's breathing may be irregular, and a respirator may be required.

  8. People don't usually suddenly 'wake up' from a coma, but tend to come round gradually and regain brain function over time • When a person comes out of a coma, they may be agitated and confused. They may need to be sedated for their own safety • Some people come out of a coma without any mental or physical disability, but most require at least some type of therapy to regain mental and physical skills. They may need to relearn how to speak, walk, and even eat. Others are never able to recover completely.

  9. Glasgow Coma scale

  10. Works Cited • Fleming, Nic. "Relatives of Coma Victims 'may Be Swayed by Hollywood Falsities'" The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 09 May 2006. Web. 18 Nov. 2013. • "Coma Signs and Symptoms." - Coma. Remedy's Health.com Communities, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2013. • Staff, Mayo Clinic. "Definition of Coma." Mayo Clinic. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 12 Oct. 2012. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.

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