Sentences with phrase «permanent vegetative»

More than four times as many children who die from drowning suffer from submersion injuries; these include memory problems, learning disabilities, and being left in a permanent vegetative state.

In these cases, it is imperative that your legal representation is highly skilled at pursuing high value settlements, as the earning capacity of the person has been permanently altered, there may be the need for ongoing care, many surgeries, treatments, and rehabilitation, or in the most tragic cases, a person is rendered immobile or in a permanent vegetative state.

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.

By 1990 there were some 14 million hectares (35 million acres) of highly erodible land with permanent vegetative cover under 10 - year contracts.

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.

Once validated, the tasks were given to one patient (Patient 23 in Table 1 and Figure 1), who had received a diagnosis of being in a permanent vegetative state 17 months after a traffic accident; this diagnosis was confirmed by a month - long specialized assessment 3.5 years after the injury.

On life support for 15 years until her court - ordered death, she was in a permanent vegetative state (VS), with a flat EEG (electroencephalograph) reading, indicative that her cortex had stopped working.

But experts caution that the patients may not have been in a permanent vegetative state (PVS), and that the men may simply have shown signs of natural recovery.

Patients in a permanent vegetative state (like Terri Schiavo) can never be involved.

Mr. Wright made it clear from the beginning that his main concern was whether or not Steven was in a «permanent vegetative state» and thus had no chance for a «meaningful life.»

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Clearly the compassion of the courts is going to reach far and wide under the new dispensation, even unto those who can not speak for themselves because they are «in a vegetative state or a permanent and irreversible state of unconsciousness.»

[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.

Farms located in areas where the original natural vegetative cover is forest must establish and maintain, as part of the conservation program, permanent shade distributed homogenously throughout the plantations; the shade must meet the following requirements:

Circles are not permanent; their vegetative and physical attributes allow them to be arranged into a life history sequence in which circles appear (birth), develop (mature) and become revegetated (die).