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Diagnostic Validity of the Basler Vegetative State Assessment - BAVESTA / Diagnostische Validität des Basler Vegetative State Assessments - BAVESTA

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Professions, 2014
Clinical assessments should meet the general psychometric properties of reliability and validity. Furthermore there are requirements in matters of diagnostic validity and usability.
Huber Marion   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Functional Activity of the Autonomous Nervous System at Different Levels of Consciousness in Patients with a Brain Damage

open access: yesОбщая реаниматология, 2018
The purpose of the study — assessment of the level of consciousness in patients with a brain damage on the basis of electrophysiological examination of the functional state of the autonomous nervous system by recording parameters of the heart rate ...
Yu. Yu. Kiryachkov   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modulated Neuroprotection in Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2021
Background: We aimed to assess the effects of modulated neuroprotection with intermittent administration in patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Cristina Daia   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Basale Stimulation bei Patienten im Wachkoma und Minimally Conscious State : Begründung für die Durchführung durch die Ergotherapie [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Objective: Basal stimulation is a therapy concept used by occupational therapists for patients in vegetative state and minimally conscious state, although the concept was invented for nursing care.
Berger, Michelle, Meier, Lara
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Chinese translation and validation of the Near-Death Experience Content scale

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry
IntroductionIn recent years, a growing number of near-death experience (NDE) testimonies have been collected worldwide due to an increasing interest in research on this phenomenon.
Yan Li   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Behavioral Recovery and Early Decision Making in Patients with Prolonged Disturbance in Consciousness after Traumatic Brain Injury [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The extent of behavioral recovery that occurs in patients with traumatic disorders of consciousness (DoC) following discharge from the acute care setting has been under-studied and increases the risk of overly pessimistic outcome prediction.
Bagiella, Emilia   +6 more
core   +1 more source

The persistent vegetative state: legal and ethical issues [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Recent advances in technology and medical expertise have enabled doctors to prolong the lives of many severely injured patients who only a few years ago would have died from their injuries. The prolongation of life by such measures has raised many legal,
Dobson, Rosemary
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occumb: An R package for site occupancy modeling of eDNA metabarcoding data

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
This study introduces a new R package, occumb, for the convenient application of site occupancy modeling using environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding data. We outline a data analysis workflow, including data setup, model fitting, model assessment, and comparison of potential study settings based on model predictions, all of which can be performed using
Keiichi Fukaya, Yuta Hasebe
wiley   +1 more source

Nociceptive Response Is a Possible Marker of Evolution in the Level of Consciousness in Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome Patients

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2021
The Nociception Coma Scale (NCS) and its revised version (NCS-R) were used to evaluate behavioral responses to pain in non-communicative patients. We hypothesized that if patients demonstrate changes to their NCS(-R) scores over time, their evolving ...
Maria Daniela Cortese   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Persistent vegetative state secondary to a motor vehicle accident [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The case presents a young girl who was involved in a road traffic accident. Despite being alive at present, her body cannot perform any basic functions since she is in a persistent vegetative state.
Abela, Franklin, Dimech, Anthony
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