Amazing Lives: Coma Miracle

Alternative title: My Shocking Story: My Coma Miracle
Synopsis: Part of the AMAZING LIVES series of a groundbreaking medical documentaries,featuring the stories of people living with rare conditions and life-threatening illnesses. Each story involves cutting-edge new therapies and complex surgical procedures.

This programme follows patients in a small South African town who are locked in a vegetative state and 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 Diana, 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.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2007
Year of production: 2007
Notes: Broadcast on the Discovery Channel on 29/3/2007 under the title MY SHOCKING STORY: My COMA MIRACLE
Subjects: Medical sciences
Keywords: coma; drug action

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