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How Long Patient Takes To Respond After Massive Heart Attack?

Induced Coma after a massive heart attack. His heart is fine, its the lack of oxygen to his brain we are concered with. Hes moving hands, wrist and eyes every once in a while. They started taking him out of the coma yesterday. How long would you say till he respons???
Wed, 16 Jul 2014
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Actually the details are very unclear or insufficient.
Because heart attack as such directly is not known to cause coma.
Is there any event happened??
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How Long Patient Takes To Respond After Massive Heart Attack?

Actually the details are very unclear or insufficient. Because heart attack as such directly is not known to cause coma. Is there any event happened??