In many cases, from a severe head injury but there are many other causes for comas. Also comas can be caused from lack of oxygen to the brain such as if one was to fall unconcious underwater they may slip into a coma.
it is someone who is on a life support machine due to the fact that they can't breathe on their own. which is also a state and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury.
coma that occurs with advanced hepatic insufficiency and portal-systemic shunts, caused by elevated blood ammonia levels; characteristic findings include asterixis in the precoma stage and paroxysms...
To put someone in a coma, you would have to have an outside oxygen supply, plenty of doctors and nurses, and the right amount of medicine. Basically, there is no way to truly put someone in a coma,...