Editing Coma (section)

== Signs and symptoms ==
General symptoms of a person in a comatose state are:
* Inability to voluntarily open the eyes
* A nonexistent sleep–wake cycle
* Lack of response to physical ([[Pain|painful]]) or verbal [[Stimulation|stimuli]]
* Depressed [[Brainstem#Clinical significance|brainstem reflexes]], such as [[Pupillary light reflex|pupils not responding to light]]
* Abnormal, difficulty, or irregular breathing or no breathing at all when coma was caused by [[cardiac arrest]] 
* Scores between 3 and 8<ref>{{cite web|title=Glasgow Coma Scale|author=Russ Rowlett|publisher=University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|url=http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/scales/glasgow.htm|access-date=2010-12-07|archive-date=2018-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180604074017/http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/scales/glasgow.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> on the [[Glasgow Coma Scale]]<ref name="RR" />