(1) The patient remained comatose and was transported to the computed tomographic scanner.(2) A common misconception is that a patient must be comatose to be diagnosed with myxedema coma.(3) Drugs of another type are used as respiratory stimulants in deeply comatose patients or those with respiratory failure.(4) They kept complaining about pain and kept getting more and more narcotics in response to their complaints until they were comatose from the drugs.(5) As hypoxemia supervenes, the patient becomes comatose and death may result from ventricular fibrillation or asystole.(6) Occasionally, intoxicated patients may be neither comatose nor organic but have initial symptoms compatible with a psychosis.(7) He had a fever of 105 and was comatose when he arrived at the hospital late in January.(8) In the field, a doctor may be called to the aid of a severely ill, comatose patient.(9) As his government went from indolent to comatose , he made unprecedented use of the government jet as a taxi back home.(10) Some 20 minutes later he returned, accompanied by a shaken overdose victim who had some 15 minutes earlier been comatose and blue.(11) Constant infusions may be useful in patients with constant dyspnea or patients who are comatose .(12) On admission, the patient was acidotic, and he rapidly became comatose .(13) No clinical signs of toxicity were observed, but the patient was comatose .(14) The doctors told them the minute they went in to see her that comatose patients weren't able to talk, but they could hear.(15) When a ventilator is removed from an apnoeic comatose patient, it is the disease or injury that causes the loss of the patient's ability to breathe spontaneously.(16) Consciousness ranges from alert to confused to a comatose state in less than 20 percent of patients.