Spinal cord electrical stimulation therapy has been successful The treatment of vegetative awakening has been a challenge for the medical community to explore. The common perception is that a vegetative person will face a long-term coma, and the patient has little hope of regaining consciousness and physical functions, and can only wait for the miracle of natural awakening. With the continuous innovation of modern medical technology, drug, physical and stimulation therapies have been widely used in the treatment of vegetative patients to promote awakening. After repeated trials and years of research by medical doctors, a new therapy to wake up vegetative people – spinal cord electrical stimulation therapy, which has been successfully carried out in many cases of wake up surgery and applied in actual cases in many hospitals in Beijing and Tianjin. At the end of 2011, a 29-year-old guy from Anshan – Xiao X (a pseudonym) – suffered a cranio-cerebral trauma due to a work-related injury, and was transferred to Tianjin Huanhu Hospital after a persistent coma following surgery at a local hospital. Huanhu Hospital immediately convened experts, professors and others to conduct a comprehensive assessment and analysis of the patient’s condition, and unanimously concluded that the patient was eligible for spinal cord implantation The hospital immediately convened experts and professors to conduct a comprehensive assessment and analysis of the patient’s condition and unanimously concluded that the patient was eligible for spinal cord implantation and decided to implement the most advanced international high cervical spinal cord electrical stimulation coma promotion surgery. He was successfully awakened through spinal cord electrical stimulation treatment at Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, and became the first person to be awakened by this new technology in Tianjin. He and his family have now returned home from the hospital for follow-up rehabilitation. Spinal cord electrical stimulation can be clinically promoted Professor X of the Center for the Promotion of Arousal of Vegetative Persons at Tianjin Huanhu Hospital said in an interview: “Spinal cord electrical stimulation is the implantation of electrodes into the spinal canal to stimulate the spinal cord nerves with pulsed current to treat diseases. Electrical stimulation of the high cervical medulla increases cerebral blood flow, and it also activates the cholinergic upward reticular system. This not only improves cerebral circulation and shrinks the foci of cerebral ischemia, but also excites the cerebral cortex, prompting the patient to be alert.” At present, Tianjin Huanhu Hospital has formed a set of comprehensive arousal program for vegetative patients with spinal cord electrical stimulation therapy as the core, and combined with the specific situation of the patient to draw up a personalized treatment plan. When the reporter asked the time most conducive to the patient’s recovery to implement surgery. Experts said, “There is a very critical time point for a vegetative person to regain function, which is often clinically referred to as the window period, i.e., when the patient is in a coma for three months, and it is very important for the patient to take active and comprehensive treatment during this critical period to revive and regain consciousness. If aggressive arousal interventions are not available for a prolonged period of time, the patient’s chances of awakening are slim.” The specialist added: “The patient’s response to external stimuli improves slowly and gradually after surgery. Neuroelectrophysiological indices show optimistic changes compared to preoperative ones.” Three months after the operation, the patient is basically able to eat through the mouth and can communicate briefly with his parents, first appearing in a minimally conscious state, and then the conscious state will gradually improve. Spinal cord electrical stimulation therapy is minimally invasive, reversible, and can be adjusted according to individual needs and other advantages, and has achieved good results in Europe, America, Japan and other Southeast Asian countries. After the introduction of this therapy in China, more than 20 cases of wake-up surgery have been successfully carried out in Beijing and Tianjin, and the patient in Tianjin Huanhu Hospital has been successfully woken up from a vegetative state with good results. News link: indications for spinal cord electrical stimulation therapy Experts remind that there are strict indications for spinal cord electrical stimulation implantation for wake-up surgery, such as severe craniocerebral trauma, massive cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage, ischemic-hypoxic encephalopathy, carbon monoxide poisoning, long-term coma caused by other reasons, etc. The population is generally young people under 35 years old, and the age requirement can be relaxed if the degree of coma is not very deep. This therapy is to apply exogenous continuous pulse electrical stimulation to the patient’s arousal system, so as to enhance the electrophysiological activity of the patient’s brain, improve the brain metabolic function, and finally achieve the goal of maintaining the level of consciousness.