EEG Changes during Propofol Anesthesia Induction in Vegetative State Patients Undergoing Spinal Cord Stimulation Implantation Surgery [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2023 Objective: To compare the EEG changes in vegetative state (VS) patients and non-craniotomy, non-vegetative state (NVS) patients during general anesthesia with low-dose propofol and to find whether it affects the arousal rate of VS patients.
Xuewei Qin +8 more
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The Role of [18F]FDG PET Imaging for the Assessment of Vegetative State or Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome: A Systematic Review [PDF]
DiagnosticsBackground: Different evidence on the ability of [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to assess patients in the vegetative state (VS) or unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) has been reported.
Francesco Dondi +8 more
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Resting-state networks distinguish locked-in from vegetative state patients [PDF]
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2016 Purpose: Locked-in syndrome and vegetative state are distinct outcomes from coma. Despite their differences, they are clinically difficult to distinguish at the early stage and current diagnostic tools remain insufficient.
Daniel Roquet +8 more
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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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Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2002 The strange and harrowing sight of a person being awake but unaware with no evidence of a working mind - the characteristics of the vegetative state - provokes intense debate and raises profound questions for health professionals, ethicists, philosophers and lawyers.
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Persistent vegetative state: an overview
Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2021 Background Disorder of consciousness diagnosis, especially when is classified as persistent vegetative state (without misestimating the other diagnosis classifications), in the intensive care is an important diagnosis to evaluate and treat.
Gabriel Alexander Quiñones-Ossa +4 more
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The persistent vegetative state – General considerations [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Neurology, 2011 The persistent vegetative state is a clinical condition of complete unawareness of the self and the environment accompanied by sleep-wake cycles with either complete or partial preservation of hypothalamic and brainstem autonomic functions.
Eva Georghita +4 more
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Comorbidities Coma Scale (CoCoS): Linguistic and Cultural Adaptation of the Russian-Language Version
Общая реаниматология, 2022 Identification of complications and control of comorbidities are essential in monitoring the patients with chronic disorders of consciousness and predicting their outcomes.
N. A. Suponeva +15 more
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Opioid-induced short-term consciousness improvement in patients with disorders of consciousness
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 IntroductionEffective treatment to facilitate recovery from prolonged disorders of consciousness is a complex topic for the medical community. In clinical practice, we have found that a subset of patients has a short-term improvement of consciousness ...
Qianqian Ge +7 more
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The Vegetative State: A Review of Etiology and Prognostic Factors
McGill Journal of Medicine, 2020 This paper reviews the research investigating the vegetative state (VS) in terms of its aetiology and prognostic factors that may be indicative of the outcome for patients in the VS.
Rachel Elizabeth Davison
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