Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Wgbh Boston
• VHS Release Date: March 28, 2000
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• ASIN: 6304794347
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #389,145 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Racing in his Range Rover to New York Hospital, a doctor relays urgent instructions to ER physicians through his speakerphone. A little boy, hit by a car, lies unconscious with massive head trauma, hovering between life and death. In a gripping real-life drama, NOVA is on the scene as famous neurosurgeon Jam Ghajar rushes in with a controversial technique for treating coma patients. Known for his role in the miraculous recovery of a young woman severely beaten in Manhattan's Central Park in 1996, Dr. Ghajar orders a CT scan and inserts a tube to drain fluid from the boy's swelling skull. As the boy's parents wait anxiously at New York Hospital's pediatric intensive-care unit, Dr. Ghajar's team monitors the child's brain pressure in an intense around-the-clock vigil he says is key to survival in the first week after head injury, but dangerously missing from standard procedure at some 70 percent of hospitals across the country. Will nine-year-old Alex survive? If so, will he be one of the 10 percent of coma patients never to emerge from a vegetative state? So much depends on crucial early intervention, which Dr. Ghajar is campaigning to making routine, simple techniques that could one day save your own loved one's life.