Sentences with phrase «persistent vegetative»

The dispute involved a patient who experienced severe brain damage from an infection following the removal of a benign tumour, resulting in what the physicians called a persistent vegetative state.

Against accepted neurological lore, he restored partial consciousness in patients in the persistent vegetative state and introduced motor cortex stimulation for the treatment of movement disorders and stroke rehabilitation.

Because Miles is diagnosed as being in a «minimally conscious state» rather than a «persistent vegetative state,» there is no legal way to bring about his death, a bewildering paradox that Spinney navigates with compassion and wisdom.

A persistent vegetative state (PVS) is a disorder of consciousness in which patients with severe brain damage are in a state of partial arousal rather than Persistent Systems Ltd..

Jennett B, Plum F. Persistent vegetative state after brain damage: a syndrome in search of a name.

Medical aspects of the persistent vegetative state.

Others graduate to an in - between zone that New York Hospital — Cornell Medical Center neurologist Fred Plum labeled the «persistent vegetative state» in 1972.

The new detection of learning also opens up questions about when patients should be classified as being in a persistent vegetative state — in which emergence isn't predicted to be likely — as Terri Schiavo was determined to be at the time.

In 1999, Louis Viljoen — who had been in a persistent vegetative state for three years — began to make erratic movements at night.

Damage to certain evolutionarily ancient structures in the brainstem robs people of consciousness entirely, leaving them in a coma or a persistent vegetative state.

Of these, 15,000 exist in a persistent vegetative state (PVS), wholly unaware of anything around them, and 14,250 of them will die within five years.

In 2005, Owen's team was the first to use functional MRI to uncover signs of consciousness in a person who was thought to be in a persistent vegetative state.

Two months later he was declared to be in a persistent vegetative state.

Witness, for example, our treatment of those said to be in a «persistent vegetative state» (PVS, defined in 1972 as a condition of «wakefulness without awareness»).

And if so, surely similar denials of personhood could be applied to unborn children who are not yet «sentient», the severely mentally disabled, people in comas or persistent vegetative states, and indeed anyone in a very deep sleep.

It is not only medicine that urges the continued treatment of patients like Jones or those in a persistent vegetative state.

This brings us to the central issue of Callahan's essay, the proper care of persons in the so - called «persistent vegetative state.»

Childs, et al, «Accuracy of Diagnosis of Persistent Vegetative State,» Neurology, 43 (August 1993): 1465 - 67, report that «of the 49 patients referred in coma or PVS, 18 (37 \ %) received a change in diagnosis at or shortly after admission» (1466).

She was said to be, in the current jargon, in a persistent vegetative state (PVS).

Not exact matches

[10] A vegetative state tends to be regarded as «persistent» if it lasts any time from one to three months and «permanent» after a year or more.