Guide to the Comatose Patient: Expert advice for families and caregivers

Caring for a loved one in a coma is a distressing time, full of many questions, and often, not as many answers. Guide to the Comatose Patient is a first-of-its-kind book that steps into the shoes of the neurologist, to show the perspective of the staff caring for their loved ones — what worries us, how we think and intervene, what we can and cannot predict, and what we know as a certainty.

In our hospital ICUs, there are more than a dozen comatose patients at any given point of time. Causes...