Problems controlling the amount of glucose in the blood.
What is diabetes?
100
This is a scan of the brain used to try and diagnose coma patients. Please give two answers.
What is a CAT Scan and an MRI scan?
200
This is the name of a coma that doctors purposely put patients in, so they don't suffer injury from surgery.
What is a Medically Induced Coma?
200
The patient is non responsive, doesn't obey commands, and their eyes remain shut.
What is score of 3?
200
This symptom would make a conversation hard.
What is inability/difficulty speaking?
200
This disease can cause a large risk of heart attack.
What is cardiovascular disease?
200
Why does edema (swelling) of the brain cause coma?
What is the reduced blood flow?
300
This causes coma almost instantaneously. It is also the most common cause.
What is head trauma?
300
This is the score range of the Glasgow Coma Scale.
What is 3-15?
300
This is also a symptom of Pneumonia.
What is difficulty breathing?
300
This is a disorder where cells preform mitosis uncontrollably.
What is cancer?
300
A reason why comatose patients comatose become agitated.
What is the brain is very active, trying to recover from the injury/edema/tumor and it is unable to execute commands?
400
This, either benign or cancerous, can cause a coma.
What is a tumor?
400
The patient has some difficulty moving, and only responds to pain by moving away from it. The patient opens their eyes regularly, and speaks without difficulty.
What is a score of 13?
400
This would make playing most sports impossible.
What is inability to ambulate?
400
These are found in venom.
What are toxins?
400
Doctors use these to relieve swelling.
***BONUS***
If this team correctly names the drug that doctors use most often, they will receive an extra 400 points.
What are anti-inflammatory drugs?
***BONUS***
What is Indomethacin?
500
This is the name of the condition that patients fall into after a coma of longer than a few weeks.
What is a Persistent Vegetative State?
500
If the patient scores within this range, he/she will most likely survive, with limited ongoing effects.
What is 13-15?
500
This is the most reliable and definitive way of determining whether a patient is comatose, and to what extent.
What is their score on the Glasgow Coma Scale?
500
This is a disease in which blood clots too frequently.
What is Thrombophilia?
500
***VIDEO QUESTION***
What images are used in the video?