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From: shacklet@ittral.UUCP (Cliff Shackleton)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Puzzled by treatment
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Date: Wed, 25-Jan-84 12:34:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 25 12:34:25 1984
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I saw on one of these "good morning" shows this morning an interview
with the doctor that treated the little boy. He said that the particular
drug and the coma state produced the side effect of increasing oxygen
in the brain and that the coma state itself was not bad but that it
was the body's way of reorganizing itself after a severe trauma.

By the way the little boy is now out of the coma and is responding to
verbal stimulus, and is able to move his arms and legs etc. It's amazing
when you consider he was under water about twenty minutes.