The experiences of the caregivers caring for the patients in persistent vegetative state due to traumatic brain injury [PDF]
SAGE Open Medicine, 2023 Objective: Persistent vegetative state often occurs as a result of traumatic brain injuries; these patients are usually hospitalized for sustained periods, and the family caregivers are the main care providers in Iranian hospitals, especially for chronic
Ehsan Alimohammadi +4 more
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Outcomes of Bone Marrow-Derived Mononuclear Cell Transplantation for Patients in Persistent Vegetative State After Drowning: Report of Five Cases [PDF]
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2020 Aim: Anoxic brain injury (ABI) due to non-fatal drowning may cause persistent vegetative state (VS) that is currently incurable. The aim of this paper is to present the safety and feasibility of autologous bone marrow-derived mononuclear cell (BMMNC ...
Nguyen Thanh Liem +10 more
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Case report: Tongdu Xingshen acupuncture for a patient with persistent vegetative state after herpes simplex virus encephalitis [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 IntroductionA persistent vegetative state (PVS) can be caused by traumatic or non-traumatic brain injury. PVS is a complex clinical condition with numerous complications.
Bingxu Jin +3 more
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Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research, 2020 Background: Providing care for patients in Persistent Vegetative State (PVS) by family caregivers without enough training and knowledge may be problematic both for the patients and for the caregivers.
Fateme Goudarzi +2 more
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Brainstem neurons survive the identical ischemic stress that kills higher neurons: insight to the persistent vegetative state. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Global ischemia caused by heart attack, pulmonary failure, near-drowning or traumatic brain injury often damages the higher brain but not the brainstem, leading to a 'persistent vegetative state' where the patient is awake but not aware. Approximately 30,
C Devin Brisson +4 more
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Clinical application of Chinese Nanjing persistent vegetative state scale [PDF]
Chinese Medical Journal, 2020 . Background. It is a challenge to characterize the consciousness level of patients with severe disturbance of consciousness and predict their prognosis effectively for Chinese doctors. We aimed to investigate the psychometric property and the diagnostic
Pei-Dong Wang +8 more
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The Effects of Enteral Nutrition on the Intestinal Environment in Patients in a Persistent Vegetative State [PDF]
Foods, 2022 Enteral nutrition (EN) is a rational approach to providing nutritional intake via the intestines in patients who are unable to tolerate parenteral nutrition.
Hiroshi Matsuoka +14 more
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Responsiveness of a patient in a persistent vegetative state after a coma to weekly injections of autologous activated immune cells: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2012 Introduction An 82-year-old Caucasian woman had remained in a persistent vegetative state after a coma of seven months duration, which occurred after a stroke with hemiplegia, nine years previously.
Fellerhoff Barbara +2 more
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Provision of renal care for patients with end stage kidney disease in persistent vegetative state, in United Arab Emirates: a national survey of renal physicians [PDF]
Libyan Journal of Medicine, 2018 Patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) with severely impaired cognitive function have no survival benefit from dialysis. We therefore undertook a survey to explore the renal physicians’ practices of withholding and withdrawal of dialysis treatment
Fayez Ebrahim Alshamsi +4 more
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Effects of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on the nutritional status of patients in a persistent vegetative state: A pilot study [PDF]
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 PurposeThis paper presents a preliminary study on whether repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can modulate the nutritional status of persistent vegetative state (PVS) patients (the primary endpoint) by regulating the intestinal flora and ...
Xuan-Wei Liu +9 more
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