Sentences with phrase «in 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.
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«My father suffered a post-operative stroke in 1983 and lingered in a persistent vegetative state for several years.
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.
Jaded Rose - Johnny (Biel), aka Scarlett, dances there for a manager (Swayze) so cruel he won't let her take off Christmas Eve to be with her son (Chandler Canterbury) who's lying in the hospital in a persistent vegetative state.
In Payne et al., «Physicians» Attitudes about the Care of Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State: A National Survey,» Annals of Internal Medicine, 125, no. 2 (15 July 1996): 104 - 110, researchers point to an emerging consensus of attitudes and beliefs among physicians who care for PVS patients.
In 1999, Louis Viljoen — who had been in a persistent vegetative state for three years — began to make erratic movements at night.
She was said to be, in the current jargon, in a persistent vegetative state (PVS).
Two months later he was declared to be in a persistent vegetative state.
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.
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.
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.
a hypothetical about the decision to turn off the life support for a loved one who was in a persistent vegetative state.