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Coma miracle /

In a small South African town, patients locked in a vegetative state are miraculously being woken with a sleeping drug. Dr Wally Nel, the local GP who stumbled upon this phenomenon, has now helped hundreds of brain damaged patients and may be the verge of an extraordinary medical breakthrough. The f...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Electric Sky (Firm) (Producer)
Other Authors: Webb, Andrew (Film director) (Producer), Nelson, Paul, 1972- (Director), Lintern, Richard (Narrator)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:This edition in English.
Published: London, England : Electric Sky, 2013.
Series:Health and society in video
Amazing Lives
Subjects:
Coma.
Zolpidem.
Medical technology.
Coma
Medical Laboratory Science
Technologie médicale.
Medical technology
Zolpidem
Documentaries and Factual Films
Streaming videos.
documentary film.
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:In a small South African town, patients locked in a vegetative state are miraculously being woken with a sleeping drug. Dr Wally Nel, the local GP who stumbled upon this phenomenon, has now helped hundreds of brain damaged patients and may be the verge of an extraordinary medical breakthrough. The film contains a television first when Diane, a woman locked in a barely conscious state speaks for the first time in three years. It also features Louis, the first patient woken by the drug seven years ago. A new brain scan reveals some startling results which suggest that the sleeping pill may actually trigger regeneration of brain cells.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 15, 2014).
Physical Description:1 online resource (51 min.).
Playing Time:00:50:31