Even if the patient wakes up, brain damage is likely to be significant enough to prevent a return to normal functioning. Long-term comas can have a significant impact on a patients family. Families of coma patients often have idealized images of the outcome based on Hollywood movie depictions of coma. Adjusting to the realities of ventilators, feeding tubes, bedsores, and muscle wasting may be difficult. Treatment decisions often involve complex ethical choices and can strain family dynamics. See also
Altitude sickness
Choking game
Hypothermia cap
Space exposure
Ulegyria

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Hypoxia experiment
Keratosis follicularis may refer to:

Dariers disease
Focal palmoplantar keratoderma with oral mucosal hyperkeratosisSee also:

Isolated dyskeratosis follicularis
Keratosis follicularis spinulosa decalvans