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Coma / HBO Documentary Films presents a film by Liz Garbus ; produced and directed by Liz Garbus ; produced by Rory Kennedy, Jed Rothstein ; executive producer for Home Box Office, Sheila Nevins ; a Moxie Firecracker production.
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Coma.
- Coma--Patients--Case studies.
- Brain damage--Patients.
- Brain damage.
- Loss of consciousness.
- Coma--Patients.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Distributed by HBO Video : Home Box Office, [2012]
- Language Note:
- In English or dubbed Spanish; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1, full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio) presentation; 2.0 audio.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Coma follows four patients admitted to the JFK Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey, one of the leading institutions in the world for the study and care of traumatic brain injuries. Two were involved in car accidents; one was assaulted, thrown from a bridge; and one fell from a balcony. All have all awoken from a comatose state, which means they can enter a minimally conscious state and either then progress to a more fully conscious state of awareness and functionality, or retreat into a permanent vegetative state. Awakened patients have a one-year window to show improvement--if they don't progress within this period, the vast majority never will. These injuries mystify doctors, frustrate patients, and the quest to help patients improve consumes the lives of families. The bottom line: the majority of people who suffer a traumatic brain injury rarely go back to being the person they were before their accidents, and doctors don't really know why.
- The mystery of coma and brain injury has captivated America's imagination for decades but little is understood about the injured brain and its ability to heal. The Center for Head Injuries at JFK Medical Center is one of America's premier institutions for studying and rehabilitating brain-injured patients. Follows four patients at the Center who have suffered traumatic brain injuries. Over the course of one year, they will emerge from their comas into either a persistent vegetative state, a minimally conscious state, or beyond.
- Contents:
- Wake up, wake up
- The first hurdle
- Past the threshold
- Do everything
- I believe
- Post-traumatic confusion
- Frustration
- Private trauma
- Not responding
- Finding a way
- Letting go
- Going home.
- Participant:
- Participating patients Al'Khan Edwards, Joseph Giacino, Roxanne Guzman, Sean Reilly, their families, and their medical teams.
- Credits:
- Editor, Karen K.H. Sim ; photographed by Daniel B. Gold, Tom Hurwitz ; original music, Thomas Rutishauser.
- Notes:
- Special feature: featurette: The case of Willie Hicks (18 min.).
- Originally produced for broadcast by HBO in 2007.
- OCLC:
- 1090870149
- Publisher Number:
- 883929005710
- 883316470381
- 1000036328 HBO Video
- 2000001261 HBO Video
- 3000014734 HBO Video
- 94511 HBO Video
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