Oh, and: repeating my call for medical advice.

[hmpf]

Or rather, advice on medical vocabulary. tiniago? stabbim?

Specifics: I need acronyms, several of them (say, between five and ten) for conditions/procedures/technology/treatment connected to brain injuries and/or coma (this is a LoM fic). One of these should be something that might be considered as crucial to a 'solution' for Sam's prolonged coma, either a procedure or technology that may not have been tried on him before, or a condition they've begun to suspect he might have or whatever. It doesn't have to be particularly *likely* - something he may have heard from someone who was speculating wildly within earshot would be okay. (I'm not actually writing medical dialogue here - the 'information' turns up in Sam's world in a rather transfigured form, but its being part of some sort of 'solution' is implied by the context it appears in.)

Comments

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

I know it's not a medical acronym, but I had a thought as I was falling asleep, and that thought was "oncology", which I think is the word for cancer, but I couldn't quite remember. It's up to you if you use it or not, but I've been meaning to email you about it and forgetting. D'oh.

zolpidem

[scotschik.livejournal.com]

You may have got what you are looking for already, but I found this article (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9215-sleeping-pill-may-rouse-coma-patients.html) really interesting. There is a lot more information out there on this, but this one sums it up nicely.

(I know the doctors specifically state Sam isn't in a PVS on the show, but if they were getting desperate...)

Hope your presentation went well!