Medical Ethics Persistent Vegetative State

Persistent vegetative state: clinical and ethical issues

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Vegetative state is a state with no evidence of awareness of self or environment and showing cycles of sleep and wakefulness. PVS is an operational definition including time as a variable. PVS is a vegetative state that has endured or continued for at least one …

Medical Aspects of the Persistent Vegetative State …

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We define persistent vegetative state as a vegetative state present one month after acute traumatic or nontraumatic brain injury or lasting for at least one month in patients with...

Diagnostic Criteria for Persistent …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/diagnostic-criteria-persistent-vegetative-state/2007-05

PVS must be differentiated from other disorders of prolonged impairment of consciousness, such as minimally conscious state, …

Revisiting the Vegetative State: A Disability Rights Law …

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Morally Right for Doctors to Let a Patient in a Persistent …

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An ethical approach to the management of patients whose vegetative state is considered to be permanent can be regarded as a logical extension of the increasing …

Persistent vegetative state: clinical and ethical issues

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Persistent vegetative state: clinical and ethical issues. Suppl Clin Neurophysiol. 2000;53:460-2.doi: 10.1016/s1567-424x(09)70196-5. Author. G G Celesia 1. Affiliation. …

Medical Aspects of the Persistent …

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Patients in a vegetative state due to degenerative or metabolic diseases have no possibility of recovery. Some patients may temporarily lapse into a vegetative state when systemic illness...

The ethical dilemma of vegetative states | Sheila McLean

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/feb/05/vegetative-state-consciousness-ethics

The "persistent" vegetative state was first described in 1972, and since then a further category – "permanent" vegetative state – has been added to emphasise the …

Persistent vegetative state: medical, ethical, religious, …

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Persistent vegetative state: medical, ethical, religious, economic and legal perspectives DePaul J Health Care Law. Spring 1997;1(3):495-536. Authors J B Oldershaw 1 , J …

Thirty years of the vegetative state: clinical, ethical and …

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The vegetative state is the rarest form of disability in patients now frequently rescued from life-threatening severe brain damage by resuscitation and intensive care. Many doctors …