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P.M.Lars
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No. Period.
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No. Unconscious people are not aware of what's going on around them.
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It depends on the depth of the coma and the patient. I was taking care of a patient in a coma for a good couple of weeks. She was not expected to come out of it. One night I walked in to see her sitting up in bed eating a snack. I said how glad I was to see her up and awake. She broke out into a huge grin and talked to me like she knew me. She told me that she remembered people by their voices. I always talk to my patients whether or not they are in a coma so mine was one she remembered. It turns out that she associated voices which she had heard while in the coma and how she was cared for... kindly or cruelly. She also remembered the voices themselves... kind or cruel. She was an AIDS patient in the bad old days and EVERY staff member who tended her was taken in front of her and made to speak because she had been treated very cruelly by many. Quite a few staff members were fired.
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A. How exactly would they get into this punctuation mark? B. If they could, they would undoubtedly be too small to hear human voices.
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There have been cases of people in a coma of people responding to a piece of music or a voice, and I know from my first aid training that you should talk to a person who is unconscious because hearing is the last sense to fail, so while I don't know the answer as I am no doctor, I think that the answer is yes.
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Don't know....but I knew someone in a question mark that was extrememly unsure of himself.
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Arisztid is correct. Not all comas are the same. Some are relatively light. Quite a lot of brain activity can be measured, and yes, sometimes people do hear and remember.
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