My dad has been in a coma for 50 days after brain hemorrhage surgery and keeps coughing a lot. The nurses are giving him duolin LD nebulization twice a day and doing suctioning, but the coughing won't stop. Should we keep giving him the duolin LD or is there something else we can try?

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Dr Kamran Mohammed

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Dear to continue or stop some medicine we require direct clinical examination but in coma pts this problem will be continuous. Duolin won't help much but it will support

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