Loss of consciousness is common in patients with blunt head trauma and is an important factor influencing the decision to order a CT in the ED.
Syncope, defined as a transient loss of consciousness, is a common clinical condition accounting for up to 3% of all emergency department (ED) visits and 6% of hospital admissions [1 4].
Several authors have, for quite different reasons, denied what they take to be a common but problematic assumption — that "Consciousness is an on/off switch; a system is either conscious or not," as Searle — who endorses the thesis puts it (quoted by Lycan 1996, who denies the thesis).
David Stather and Niall D Ferguson The management of a brain-injured patient with satisfactory weaning parameters but a decreased level of consciousness is a common critical care scenario.
Loss of consciousness is relatively common in military settings due to prolonged standing, exertion in hot weather with dehydration, etc., whereas the main concern is shock/coma due to infectious causes.
Our "weak AI" (machines that can demonstrate intelligence but do not necessarily have a mind, mental states or consciousness) is already very common and responsible to many aspects of our lives, from weather forecasting, via algo-trading and surveillance, and all the way to my video games.
This likely reflects the common, persistent belief that noncommunicating patients, whose consciousness is frequently altered, are unlikely to feel pain.
The essential relationship between theta-gamma mechanisms and consciousness is also highlighted by a possible common neuropharmacological substrate.
The most common justification given by neurologists was a higher brain concept, suggesting that irreversible loss of consciousness is death.
Anxiety below consciousness is the emotion that is transmitted through human systems to alert the system to a common danger.
