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Post a new topicby livingwith on Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:29 pm

My brother in law had a heart attack and was not found for a long time. When the ambulance came he was in caradic [cardiac] arrest and it took them 16 minutes to restart his heart and he has been in a coma now for almost 2 weeks. The doctors are looking for next of kin because no action to stimuli by the doctor. I feel he is brain Dead and will never come back to us like he was.
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Re: brain dead coma

Post a new topicby dovadya on Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:23 pm

This happened in Oct.. how did this turn out? Is he any better? Did you find his family?
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