Sentences with phrase «minimally conscious people»

Martin is now trying to work out a way to have more sophisticated conversations with apparently minimally conscious people.

«It's like we're opening and shutting a window for a few hours, and that could be perceived as cruel,» says Joseph Fins, at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, who was a member of the first team to trial deep brain stimulation in a minimally conscious person.

When this article was first published on 26 February 2014, it did not acknowledge that the first trial of deep brain stimulation in a minimally conscious person was a team effort.

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Martin was responsible for coming up with this idea, then testing it in healthy volunteers before trying it out on people thought to be in a minimally conscious state.

UCLA scientists have found that conscious sedation — a type of anesthesia in which patients remain awake but are sleepy and pain - free — is a safe and viable option to general anesthesia for people undergoing a minimally invasive heart procedure called transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

The team found that most of the people diagnosed as being minimally conscious and some with a VS diagnosis blinked on hearing the beep.

He and his colleagues had conversations with people thought to be minimally conscious, by assigning different tasks to represent the words «yes» and «no».

He led a 2007 study in which a minimally conscious patient (a person who shows occasional intention, attention, awareness, and responsiveness) improved somewhat with deep brain stimulation of the thalamus..

Another 280,000 people with traumatic brain injuries linger in a minimally conscious state (MCS), with wavering awareness and a sporadic ability to respond to stimuli.

No one knows how many people are in a minimally conscious or vegetative state — perhaps as many as 280,000 in the United States alone.

When people temporarily emerge from a minimally conscious state, it's hard to gauge how much they are really aware of.

The team worked with 55 people who had experienced a traumatic brain injury or lack of oxygen to the brain and were in a minimally conscious or vegetative state.

Patients in a state of unresponsive wakefulness had 38 % as much metabolic activity as the controls, minimally conscious patients showed 58 % as much activity, and people being roused back to consciousness (either from sleep or anesthesia), had 63 % of the normal metabolic activity.

People who have been in a minimally conscious state for weeks or years have been temporarily roused using mild electrical stimulation.

If the technology helps other people recovering from coma, Monti said, it could eventually be used to build a portable device — perhaps incorporated into a helmet — as a low - cost way to help «wake up» patients, perhaps even those who are in a vegetative or minimally conscious state.

Disorders of consciousness come in shades of gray, from severely impaired «vegetative states» to the perplexing «minimally conscious state» in which people slip into and out of awareness.

Some are comatose, some in a state of unresponsive wakefulness (previously called vegetative), others are minimally conscious, and yet others are people suffering from locked - in syndrome (those who are conscious but completely paralyzed, and are sometimes able to move only their eyes).

Our team has extensive experience in field of «serious medical treatment», having recently acted in cases concerning Obstetric / gynaecological treatment for women with mental health difficulties; Withholding or withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration from a person in a permanent vegetative state or a minimally conscious state; Organ or bone marrow donation by a person who lacks capacity to consent; Non-therapeutic sterilisation of a person who lacks capacity to consent and Life - saving but invasive surgical treatment.