Unconsciousness

:See also Unconscious mind.Unconsciousness, more appropriately referred to as loss of consciousness or lack of consciousness, is a dramatic alteration of mental state that involves complete or near-complete lack of responsiveness to people and other environmental stimuli. Being in a comatose state or coma is an illustration of unconsciousness. Fainting due to a drop in blood pressure and a decrease of the oxygen supply to the brain is an illustration of a temporary loss of consciousness. Loss of consciousness must not be confused with altered states of consciousness, such as delirium , normal sleep, hypnosis, and other altered states in which the person responds to stimuli.Loss of consciousness should not be confused with the notion of the psychoanalytic unconscious or cognitive processes that take place outside of awareness.Loss of consciousness may occur as the result of traumatic brain injury, brain hypoxia , severe poisoning with drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system , severe fatigue, and other causes. (From the Wikpedia article Unconsciousness.)

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Continuous peritransplant assessment of consciousness using bispectral index monitoring for patients with fulminant hepatic failure undergoing urgent liver transplantation. Background: Rapid deterioration of consciousness is a critical situation...	21st November, 2009	Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Department of	Clin Transplant. 2009 Nov 19. DOI Direct Link
Green urine, but no infection. Neurology, in the modern sense, did not exist in ancient Egypt, where...	13th November, 2009	Department of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam,	Lancet. 2009 Oct 31;374(9700):1566. DOI Direct Link
Chapter 3 neurology in ancient egypt. Neurology, in the modern sense, did not exist in ancient Egypt, where...	7th November, 2009	Department of Neurology, University of California at Davis; Fiddletown	Handb Clin Neurol. 2009;95:29-36. DOI Direct Link
Lower bispectral index values in children who are intellectually disabled. BACKGROUND: Very few data are available on the use of bispectral index...	6th November, 2009	Departments of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center-Sophia	Anesth Analg. 2009 Nov;109(5):1428-33. DOI Direct Link
Saturday morning in the clinic. Background: Most studies on trauma and trauma systems have been conducted...	5th November, 2009	Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical	Hastings Cent Rep. 2009 Sep-Oct;39(5):24-6.
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Unconsciousness Patents:
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7473680	Remodeling and glycoconjugation of peptides
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7507414	Albumin fusion proteins
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