Dubai: Woman wakes up from coma after eight months

Dubai: Woman wakes up from coma after eight months

A woman in Dubai has miraculously regained consciousness after being in coma for nearly eight months. The Ethiopian housemaid had slipped into coma after suffering from severe brain damage due to hypoxia (lack of oxygen). The 31-year-old woman had gone to sleep after leaving charcoal burning in her room to keep it warm. The smoke build-up led to carbon monoxide poisoning and she was left unconscious. The next morning as she lay unresponsive in her room, her sponsors called Dubai Ambulance who broke open her room and rushed her to the Aster Hospital Al Qusais. Dr Chaitanya Prakash Prabhu, critical care medicine (specialist), Aster Hospital, Qusais, who attended to her, said: “While the vitals of the patient Tsige Geromi Guta were stable, she was not responding at all, and had slipped into coma due to hypoxia related to carbon monoxide poisoning. To help such patients breathe better we intubate them to protect the airway. We immediately put a tube inside her trachea and put her on ventilator support, but she remained unresponsive for the next two days. Her MRI revealed that she had suffered severe hypoxic damage to the brain and her EEG reconfirmed the same.” Dr Prabhu said it