Elaine Esposito

Elaine Esposito an American patient.

She held the Guinness World Record for the longest time spent in a coma.

At age six, Elaine underwent a routine appendectomy on August 6, 1941, but never woke up after being anesthetized. During the surgery.

She died in 1978 at the age of 43 years and 357 days, having been in a coma for 37 years and 111 days.

Edwarda O’Bara and Aruna Shanbaug later exceeded Esposito’s record of having been in the longest comas.

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