Sentences with phrase «patients in the 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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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).

It is not only medicine that urges the continued treatment of patients like Jones or those 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.

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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.