Chinese Man Awakes from Five-month Coma

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Chinese Man Awakes from Five-month Coma

A 63-year-old Chinese man has awoken from a coma of nearly five months in the Rehabilitation Hospital of Heilongjiang Province, northeast China.

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A 63-year-old Chinese man has awoken from a coma of nearly five months in the Rehabilitation Hospital of Heilongjiang Province, northeast China.

Doctors in the hospital said the man, surnamed Wu, was able to recognize his relatives, doctors and nurses, and could signal if he needed the toilet, doctors said.

Wu, a native of Dalian, a coastal city of northeastern Liaoning Province, was injured in a traffic accident in late October last year.

Wu was sent to a local hospital more than three hours after the accident, and doctors found that he was suffering skull fractures,encephalic haematoma and bleeding. Wu fell into a coma after surgery.

He was then sent to the Rehabilitation Hospital of Heilongjiang Province for treatment in early November.

Wang Xiaodan, the doctor in charge of treating Wu, said they had eventually woken him by using high-pressure oxygen, traditional Chinese medicines, and stimulation by noise, light and electricity, acupuncture, muscle restoration training, and injections of medicines to activate brain cells.

Doctor Wang predicted that Wu would be able take care of himself in his daily life after he had received rehabilitation therapy.

It is believed that Wu is the oldest person to wake from a coma caused by injury in China.

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