Sentences with phrase «permanent vegetative state»

Better understanding of the coma - like state of general anesthesia could also shed light on patients who are in a more permanent vegetative state, who upon waking go through very similar stages as those coming up from general anesthesia — albeit much more slowly.

Dr Adrian Owen of the Brain Sciences Unit at Cambridge University - but soon to move to the University of Western Ontario in Canada - hit the news in February of this year when his research team showed that there were incontrovertible signs of intelligent activity in the brains of patients in a so - called «permanent vegetative state» (PVS).

Consequently, the term person applies to all human beings who have existence, whether we consider those who do not think or will — including the human embryo, no matter how small — or those who perhaps never could or never will think and will — including the severely handicapped, the disabled elderly or an individual in a «persistent» or «permanent vegetative state».

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

Other experts stress, however, that people are sometimes misdiagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state.

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.

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.

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.

Rasouli v. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre et al. 2013 SCC 53 Medicine — Relation with patient — General — Non-resuscitation, termination of life support and personal directives A hospital patient (husband) went into a permanent vegetative state following surgery to remove a benign brain tumour, and was placed on life support.

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.

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.