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A pure nightmare: in a coma yet still conscious

November 23, 2009 by Brigitte Pellerin 2 Comments

Makes you think twice about pulling the plug too fast, doesn’t it:

A car crash victim has spoken of the horror he endured for 23 years after he was misdiagnosed as being in a coma when he was conscious the whole time.

Rom Houben, trapped in his paralysed body after a car crash, described his real-life nightmare as he screamed to doctors that he could hear them – but could make no sound.

‘I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,’ said Mr Houben, now 46, who doctors thought was in a persistent vegatative state.

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  1. Suricou Raven says

    November 23, 2009 at 11:41 am

    The possibility of this occuring should be much lower now, for those with access to modern medical technology – the scans are better than they’ve ever been. Shame the article doesn’t give more information on exactly what type of test was used – I assume some variation of either EEG or fMRI, as you couldn’t re-diagnose like that without functional information that a structure-only scan like CAT just wouldn’t reveal.

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    • Brigitte Pellerin says

      November 23, 2009 at 12:01 pm

      For crying out loud I sure *hope* the odds are low. It’s not quite like pulling out the wrong rotten tooth by mistake.

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