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Ethical Aspects of Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States

Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2013
The growing diffusion of life support procedures, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), allows physicians to keep a person alive almost indefinitely when the person's heart has stopped beating autonomously or spontaneous breathing is precluded.
MALLIA P, DANIELE, RAFFAELE, SACCO S, CAROLEI A, PISTOIA F   +4 more
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Clinical management of the minimally conscious state

2015
The minimally conscious state (MCS) was defined as a disorder of consciousness (DoC) distinct from the vegetative state more than a decade ago. While this condition has become widely recognized, there are still no guidelines to steer the approach to assessment and treatment.
Amy M, Rosenbaum, Joseph T, Giacino
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Cerebral processing in the minimally conscious state

Neurology, 2005
We studied a patient in a minimally conscious state using PET and cognitive evoked potentials. Cerebral metabolism was below half of normal values. Auditory stimuli with emotional valence (infant cries and the patient's own name) induced a much more widespread activation than did meaningless noise; the activation pattern was comparable with that ...
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Incidence and prevalence of the vegetative and minimally conscious states

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2005
The methodological difficulties of obtaining accurate epidemiological data for vegetative state (VS) and minimally conscious state (MCS) are considered, and prompt the conclusion that published data are of uncertain validity, partly due to variation in the criteria for diagnosis.
J Graham, Beaumont, Pamela M, Kenealy
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Perception of Value and the Minimally Conscious State

HEC Forum, 2015
The "disability paradox" is the idea that for those who become severely disabled, their own quality of life (QoL) assessment remains at or slightly below the QoL assessments of normal controls. This is a source of skepticism regarding third-person QoL judgments of the disabled.
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The Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States

Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 2005
In the last 2 decades, the minimally conscious state has been distinguished conceptually from the vegetative state and operational criteria for these diagnoses have been published. Standardized and individualized assessment tools have been developed to assist with the diagnosis of severe disorders of consciousness and the measurement of clinical ...
Joseph, Giacino, John, Whyte
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DBS therapy for the vegetative state and minimally conscious state

2005
Twenty-one cases of a vegetative state (VS) and 5 cases of a minimally conscious state (MCS) caused by various kinds of brain damage were evaluated neurologically and electrophysiologically at 3 months after brain injury. These cases were treated by deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy, and followed up for over 10 years.
T, Yamamoto, K, Kobayashi, M, Kasai, H, Oshima, C, Fukaya, Y, Katayama   +5 more
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Minimally Conscious and Vegetative State

2020
A small number of patients develop a disorder of consciousness (DOC) after surviving severe traumatic brain injury (STBI), meaning that after cessation of sedation they show no (vegetative state (VS)) or limited and fluctuating (minimally conscious state (MCS)) behavioural signs of consciousness.
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Medical aspects of the minimally conscious state in children

Brain and Development, 2003
The minimally conscious state is a condition of severely altered consciousness in which minimal but definite behavioral evidence of self or environmental awareness is demonstrated. This must be established on a reproducible or sustained basis by one or more of four types of behaviors including simple command-following, gestural or verbal 'yes/no ...
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Neurophysiological patterns of vegetative and minimally conscious states

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2005
This paper reviews the possible usefulness of electroencephalogram (EEG) and evoked potential (EP) recording in vegetative and poorly-responsive patients. There is a marked inter-individual EEG and EP variability, which reflects the state heterogeneity.
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