title: [Emergencies in internal medicine. General management in coma situations].
abstract: One of the most important aspects of the Emergency Medicine is the coma status as much as intra and extrahospitalary ambient. The interest of om study is based according the hardness of anamnesis, and the severity of symptoms induced by a altered conscience and by the need of a emergency therapy. This work summarized the general semiology of the patient in order to diagnostic, severity and etiology of the coma. The general behaviour therapeutic and some criterions about an irreversibility is also studied.
mesh_terms: D003128:Coma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine; D013030:Spain
vernacular_title: Urgencias en Medicina Interna. Bases generales de actuación en las situaciones de coma