gav schrieb:
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> Still critical and fighting for his life. Despite
> rumours, he only had one operation. He became
> "increasingly agitated" at the first hospital. He
> has lesions within the brain. It wasn't clear
> regarding his coma status - one answer at the
> press conference said he fell into a coma en route
> to Grenoble (the 2nd hospital), while later they
> stated he was in a medically induced coma. I
> don't know whether you can fall into a coma which
> is then sustained medically, but that's what it
> sounded like.
That's the way I understood it as well. Afaik it's possible to sustain a coma medically, but in that case there's no guarantee that stopping the medication will wake up the person in question. I think it's mainly done to ensure the patient is not waking up too early.
used to be GPGSL's Nick Heidfeld