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Brain injury patients who are put into a coma at the scene of an accident make better recoveries than those who are not, according to one report.

According to The Age, a study has found that acting quickly by putting patients in a coma to minimise brain swelling increases the chance of a good recovery.

Of the study on the 300 patients, published in the Annals of Surgery, 51 per cent of those who received the treatment had favourable outcomes, in comparison to 39 per cent of the patients who underwent treatment in hospital.

Ambulance Victoria chief executive Greg Sassella in Australia is now planning to train paramedics in the state to administer anaesthetics to put patients in a coma and insert breathing tubes, to ease the pressure on the brain.

This comes after £3.3 million was put into spinal injury research in Australia as part of the government's Spinal Cord Injury and Related Neurological Conditions Research Grants programme.

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