Sentences with phrase «other vegetative state»

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No one knows how many others in the same state are incorrectly labeled as vegetative or semicomatose and warehoused, doomed to a nightmare world where they exist in a body that feels but can not move, with a brain that is intact, hearing and seeing but unable to communicate a presence to others.

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.

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

WHEN he found out that his old flame, Maureen, was in a vegetative state as a result of a brain haemorrhage, neuroscientist Adrian Owen started wondering whether she, and other people in a similar situation, might have some awareness.

Some comas, such as those induced by low blood sugar (aka a diabetic coma), can be reversed relatively quickly with the proper remedies, but others can result in the patient remaining in a permanent vegetative state or in death.

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).

Even 10 days after the crash, doctors told her family members she might be in a vegetative state her whole life, which would have meant her ability to interact with others would have been severely limited.