23 February 2012, 17:00
Two victims of explosion in Volgograd cafe put by doctors in stimulated coma
Two victims of the explosion in "Bellagio" cafe in Volgograd were put into pharmacological coma. This was done to allow the victims to easier live through the recovery from their bodily burns, experts of the Volgograd City Hospital have explained.
German doctors are fighting for the lives of three victims of "Bellagio" explosion. One of the women treated there was also put into stimulated coma, the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" reports.
"Yanina Gareeva, a native of Tatarstan, was brought, along with two other Volgograd residents, injured in the explosion in "Bellagio", was taken to a clinic in Cologne. After consultations, German doctors concluded that she should be put into stimulated coma to make her recovery from the burns easier," the "AiF-Volgograd" quotes an expert from the Volgograd City Clinical Hospital No. 25.
A similar method of treatment was also used by Moscow doctors from the Vishnevskiy Institute, who put Edita Novikova, another victim of the cafe explosion, into the drug-induced sleep, the IA "Regional News" reports.
