Sentences with phrase «child in the coma»

Not exact matches

Exposure to nicotine, even in small amounts, can cause seizures, coma and fatal heart problems in children.

The honest cry of the father, «I believe, help my unbelief,» proves his trust in Jesus, who takes the child by the hand and rouses him from the coma.

And if so, surely similar denials of personhood could be applied to unborn children who are not yet «sentient», the severely mentally disabled, people in comas or persistent vegetative states, and indeed anyone in a very deep sleep.

And after living in a chocolate induced coma for the last 3 days I wish I had thought to ask for a double batch of brownies instead of cake for every birthday as a child.

Because most concussion victims score 14 or 15 on the GCS, its primary utility is in ruling out more serious brain injuries.4 Thus,» [w] hile highly useful in the sphere of emergency response to trauma, the Glasgow Coma Scale should not be used to assess the significance of a concussion,» writes William P. Meehan, III, MD, MomsTeam concussion medicine expert emeritus and former Director of the Sports Concussion Clinic in the Division of Sports Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston, in his 2011 book, Kids, Sports, and Concussion.1

Meanwhile, the victim Brian DeLeon remains in a coma, and on Tuesday night, hours before charges were filed, Logan Square parents gathered to call for measures they hope will shield their children from violence.

UPDATE: Jose Sucuzhañay, who had been on life support and in a coma since he and his brother were attacked with a bottle and an aluminum baseball bat in the early hours of Monday morning, has died: «The victim, Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay, the co-owner of Open Realty International, a real estate agency in Bushwick, was described by family members as a gentle, generous man, a father of two children who live with his parents in Azogues, Ecuador, his native town.

Survey data reveals a high degree of medical consensus that shaking a young child is capable of producing subdural hematoma (a life - threatening pooling of blood outside the brain), severe retinal hemorrhage, coma or death, according to a study published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

When asked to attribute a cause of subdural hematoma, severe retinal hemorrhage, coma or death in a child less than 3 years of age, more than 80 percent of physicians responded that shaking with or without impact was likely or highly likely to produce subdural hematoma, 90 percent reported that it was likely or highly likely to lead to severe retinal hemorrhage, and 78 percent felt that it was likely or highly likely to result in a coma or death.

With little hope for Giese's survival, Rodney Willoughby, an infectious disease specialist at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, induced a coma to protect her brain from viral attack, giving Giese's immune system time to rev up to combat the virus.

«Doctors in the emergency room harness the Glasgow Coma Scale to assess the extent of brain trauma in incoming patients — from a child who falls off the bed to a victim of a major accident,» Prof. Pick continued.

Increased pressure in the brain can lead to death in many children who fall into coma from cerebral malaria, which is the most severe form of the disease.

A baby gets a cold, fusses, won't eat, and the next thing the bewildered parents know is that their child is in a coma.

Donna Landrigan, 36, shown here with her husband and three children, spent five months in a drug - induced coma.

The herb may also cause significant side effects in children, including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, drowsiness, seizures, fainting, or coma, so should not be administered to children.

In a type of hypothermic coma, boy, it turns out, is the child of Marla, a type of deadbeat mother who has scammed her way into letting her own mother Crystal (Margo Martindale) take most of the responsibility of the child.

So you've finished your meal, and instead of laying around in a food coma, you think: wouldn't it be an outstanding idea if we jury - rigged a tattoo gun and tattooed all our underage children?

Examples of FRD include cases where a pregnant employee is told to get an abortion if she wishes to remain employed, a less qualified parent without children is promoted over a more qualified parent (typically, this one hits women harder) or a male state trooper is denied leave to care for his newborn and told by his supervisor that his wife would have to be «in a coma or dead» for a man to qualify for leave as the primary caregiver.