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Children in a Persistent Vegetative State
BMJ, 1984 Predicting the outcome for children in coma is difficult because of the greater resilience of their still developing brains. Those who survive with intact vegetative functions but without cognitive, sapient function can live almost indefinitely with ...
Campbell, A.G.M.
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Persistent Vegetative State: An Ethical Reappraisal
Neurological Sciences, 2011 Ethical issues in a vegetative state ...
Corinna Porteri +18 more
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BMJ, 1991 A number of "new" diseases have been discovered in the waning decades of the 20th century. Some are the result of newly evolved or more aggressive pathogenic organisms, eg, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, while other conditions are the result of the application of modern medical technology. The persistent vegetative state (PVS) is an example of the
Andrews, Keith
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Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1995 The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the experience of five Registered Nurses involved in the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in a persistent Vegetative State (PVS) patient.
Kim Hollows
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The persistent vegetative state [PDF]
BMJ, 1995 Patients in a vegetative state seem to be awake with their eyes open but show no evidence of awareness.1 They do not interact with others and make no purposeful or voluntary responses to visual, auditory, tactile, or noxious stimuli. They are able to breathe spontaneously, and they retain their gag, cough, sucking, and swallowing reflexes.
R S, Howard, D H, Miller
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Persistent vegetative state [PDF]
Neurology, 2007 A young man was resuscitated from a deep comatose state following unobserved cardiac arrest. Head CT done a few hours later revealed bilateral basal ganglia hypodensities, suggestive of hypoxic-ischemic …
Modi, Manish, Singla, Veenu
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging Characteristics of Persistent Vegetative State Due to Prolonged Hypoglycemia [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015 Hypoglycemia is the sudden decrease in serum glucose level
Ayse Guler +4 more
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Clinical Case Reports, 2021 This article highlights the possibility of positive outcomes associated with prolonged CPR and anoxic brain injury contesting the idea that such patients will invariably end up in a persistent vegetative state.
Fateen Ata +8 more
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