Doctors continue artificial coma for Schumacher

Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has been under an induced coma in a French hospital for nearly a month, following a ski accident that caused damage to his head. Doctors have sedated the former race driver and cooled his body to around 35 degrees Celsius to ease the risk of further damage to the brain caused by internal bleeding. There has been no update on his condition since January 17, when his spokesman Sabine Kehm, said he was still “stable” and that his family had complete trust in his treatment. Experts not connected with the treatment say it is quite rare for a coma to be induced for more than 3 weeks. Patients who do awake from an induced coma will have a long road to recovery. Schumacher turned 45 on January 3. He first retried at aged 37 but came out of retirement in 2010.


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