Re: Info needed -- risks on general anesthesia for coma survivors

From: Sam Libowitz (libosam_at_pobox.com)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: 28 Aug 2004 16:22:41 -0700

Larry <Larry@nospam.net> wrote in message news:<zOwXc.8803$ZD4.7061400@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>...
> Or possibly getting a 2nd anesthesiologist opinion? Actually ... this
> sounds like a perfect reason to have it done at a major medical
> institution who may have dealt with this situation before.
>
> Larry E.
>

Acually we're now having a conference with the head of anesthesiology
at a fair-sized sized medical institute in NYC. But we didn't want to
go into the meeting cold; ideally we'd have a little reading under our
belts so we understood on a gut level what was being talked about,
*and a feel for the statistics*. Both of us have had too much 1st-hand
experience of being hospitalized ever to take any doctor's word as
Truth, regardless of his/her competence or status.

It turns out to be a suprisingly rare situation -- or at any rate good
stats are rare (or alternately, maybe my reaserch skills aren't what
they were.)

Sam L.

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