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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Persistent vegetative state. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2010 Mick Leach, commenting on David Jewell's editorial on assisted dying,1 writes that ‘we are part of a wider global society that is in many ways becoming more uniform … that does not mean that we should necessarily always take the same route as other countries’.2 I would like to underline two key cases that happened in the UK and Italy that have been ...
Carelli F.
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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 …
Manish Modi, Veenu Singla
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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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Misdiagnosing the persistent vegetative state [PDF]
BMJ, 1996 Diagnosing the persistent vegetative state is important and sometimes difficult. Patients who retain some degree of awareness must be recognised if their quality of life is to be maximised and inappropriate withdrawal of tube feeding prevented. On p 13 Keith Andrews and colleagues present a retrospective study of the clinical records of 40 patients ...
Derick T Wade
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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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Hydrogen inhalation promotes recovery of a patient in persistent vegetative state from intracerebral hemorrhage: A case report and literature review. [PDF]
World J Clin Cases, 2022 Huang Y +6 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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Severe Protracted Hypophosphatemia in a Patient with Persistent Vegetative State on Long-Term Assisted Respiratory Support. [PDF]
Am J Case Rep, 2022 Namestnic Y +3 more
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