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[Awakening from traumatic coma and its future. 3 phases of dynamic reconstruction]
H Curallucci1, H Alessandri, C Rampon
1Clinique Saint Martin, Marseille.
Abstract:
After the question of TC patient's survival in Intensive Care Units, many other questions, during-coma awakening phase, appear to family, care team, and the patient himself i.e. will the patient be handicapped or will he be as before? which after-effects of this passage? The vital functions and autonomy conquest goes with a permanent adjustment of psychical functions for keeping together an "exploded" subject. Each patient's singular history, its expression and meanings, are catched into initial trauma, coma, intensive care and awakening phase framework. Clinical observations leads to describe three evolutive periods, specific of awakening but also bound up with each other.
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