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hypoglycemic coma

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hypoglycemic coma
Etymology: Gk, hypo, under, glykys, sweet, koma, deep sleep
a loss of consciousness that results from abnormally low blood glucose levels.


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And it is especially useful for patients with diabetes, when a patient may be incapacitated-particularly in the case of hypoglycemic coma.
Special Note on Coma It is important in diabetes to distinguish between diabetic coma and hypoglycemic coma.
By then he had been putting patients with addiction and psychosis into deep hypoglycemic coma and having them reemerge into consciousness, as this treatment resulted in marked improvement of their psychotic symptoms.
 
 
 
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