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The minimally conscious state in children

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology, 2002
The minimally conscious state (MCS) is a condition of severely altered consciousness in which minimal but definite behavioral evidence of self- or environmental awareness is shown. Diagnostic criteria recently have been proposed for entry into and emergence from the MCS.
Stephen, Ashwal, Ronald, Cranford
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The minimally conscious state

Neurology, 2002
To establish consensus recommendations among health care specialties for defining and establishing diagnostic criteria for the minimally conscious state (MCS).There is a subgroup of patients with severe alteration in consciousness who do not meet diagnostic criteria for coma or the vegetative state (VS).
Joseph T, Giacino, S, Ashwal, N, Childs, R, Cranford, B, Jennett, D I, Katz, J P, Kelly, J H, Rosenberg, J, Whyte, R D, Zafonte, N D, Zasler   +10 more
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Persistent Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States

Reviews in the Neurosciences, 2009
The diagnosis and management of patients with persistent vegetative (PVS) and minimally conscious (MCS) states entail powerful medical, ethical and legal debates. The recent description of the MCS highlights the crucial role of unexpected and well-documented recoveries of cognitive functions.
Calixto, Machado, Julius, Korein
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The Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States

2008
Publisher Summary Persistent vegetative state (PVS) describes the patients who recovered from coma with periods of wakefulness but without any sign of self or environmental awareness. This emphasizes the dissociation between the still-viable vegetative functions (e.g., respiration, heart rate, blood pressure) and the complete loss of cognition.
Joseph T, Giacino, Richard, Malone
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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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Assessment of nociceptive system in vegetative and minimally conscious state by using laser evoked potentials

Brain Injury, 2015
The aim of this study is to assess if laser evoked potentials (LEPs) examination should be considered as an objective evidence of potential or residual pain perception capacity in vegetative (VS) and minimally conscious state (MCS) patients and if it ...
Simona de Salvo, Lilla Bonanno
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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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