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Professor Kang Sung-Guk felt like all his previous medical knowledge was being turned upside down when he heard the news.
“He’s awake?"
He rushed to the intensive care unit after hearing the unbelievable news. When he found Kim Hyun-Taek, his jaw dropped.
Kim Hyun-Taek was fully off all life support devices. He was digesting food from his feeding tube in his nostrils. He was breathing on his own without a ventilator, and his heart was beating on its own.
“Is the brainstem working?” Kang Sung-Guk asked Miguel.
“Yes. The patient is now breathing alone and maintaining his heartbeat.”
“This can’t be… What stage of consciousness is he in? Is he in a coma? Or is he in a vegetative state?”
“Neither.”
“What?”
There was one more shocking fact.
“You don’t have sleep cycles in a coma, but this patient has one. And someone in a vegetative state doesn’t show any activity in the electroencephalogram, but this patient has activity,” Miguel said.
“The encephalogram has activity?”
“Yes. When someone talks to him or stimulates him to think of a scene, he responds by showing peaks in the EEG graph,” Miguel said, pointing to the monitor.
“Does he have cognitive f...
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