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Is two weeks long enough to determine if someone will recover consciousness? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Is two weeks long enough to determine if someone will recover consciousness? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Johns Hopkins Medicine

April 10, 20251m 4s

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If someone has suffered a brain injury and is on life support, determining when to cease that treatment is challenging if they haven’t recovered consciousness, with a new study identifying something called sleep spindles, seen on EEG, as helpful. Johns …<p class="read-more"> <a class="more-link" href="https://podcasts.hopkinsmedicine.org/is-two-weeks-long-enough-to-determine-if-someone-will-recover-consciousness-elizabeth-tracey-reports/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Is two weeks long enough to determine if someone will recover consciousness? Elizabeth Tracey reports</span> Read More »</a></p>