Coma

[cdowns88]

These are just questions I need for some research I am doing on a coma patient's experience, so if anyone knows the answers, it would help a bunch.
If a person went into a coma from severe head trauma after a car accident, how long would it be before visitors would be allowed to see them?
How long would someone be allowed to visit them each day?
Would they start out in the ER and move to ICU or always be in ICU?
Would they remain in ICU during recovery?
If they fully woke up with no side effects, how long would they have to remain in the hospital?
If they started waking up and recovering, would they be moved out of ICU?
Would someone who was in a coma be able to remember anything that happened while they were in the coma, such as words spoken to them?
How long after a person has been in a persistent vegetative state do the doctors start asking the family to consider taking them off life support?
What is the policy for contacting the family members of someone in a coma?

Here are just some hospital-related questions:
Is the ICU usually on the first floor?
Are there nurses who work specifically in the ICU?
Do the paramedics transfer the patient on a Gurney from the ambulance to the ER or do nurses transfer them?
If someone who is being treated was injured in a crime, would the doctors be informed by the police?
Is a nurse or doctor allowed to treat someone they know, such as a friend or relative?

I know these are a lot of questions, but if you could even answer just one, it would help a bunch. Thanks!

[Billy S]

Do you rember when in Coma, I certanley did. I was in a coma for 3weeks My son was trying to drown me in a bath,He would try to electrycute me in the same bath, I remember shouting at him "It"s not even earthed you soft Ba********d" It's all very very real.Sometimes I would in a Firefight in some sort of warehouse I was lighing on a hospital trolley (my legs would not work)I was useing some sort of high powerd hand gun.I could go on but I think I have answered your question yes in my case I certanley can remember.Hope this helps your work.P.S I now suffer from P.T.S.D