Intubation is the procedure of placing a tube into the mouth and then into the airway in order to place a person on a ventilator to help them breathe. "I was really in a medically-induced coma for three days, and during that time, they put me on a ventilator, where I stayed for seven days," Brown explained. The main purpose of putting someone on a ventilator is so that they can breathe without being able to speak or open their eyes. There are other reasons why people may need to be placed on a ventilator, such as having no other way to breathe or live. "In my case, they needed to put me on a ventilator because I had stopped breathing normally due to multiple organ failure. This means that my organs such as my heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys were not functioning properly," she continued. Putting someone on a ventilator is definitely an induction into a coma, since you are treating the symptoms and not the cause of what's wrong with the patient. Coma patients often have their limbs restrained in order to prevent them from pulling out tubes that might be inserted into vital organs. This is done primarily for safety purposes since comatose patients cannot tell us if they are experiencing pain. "After I woke up from my coma, I found out that I had broken several bones in my neck during my collapse.