Sentences with phrase «to be in a vegetative state»

In a European survey, 66 percent of health - care professionals said they thought it was permissible to remove a feeding tube from someone who had been in a vegetative state for more than a year, but only 28 percent felt that way for patients who were minimally conscious.

It also suggests that some patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative state (VS) are in fact minimally conscious (MCS).

In 2005, just as the deep brain stimulation patient was making his first forays into awareness, the fate of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who had been in a vegetative state since 1990, sparked an ideological war.

Nurse Orr protested the claim that Miss Cruzan was in a vegetative state.

A man believed to be in a vegetative state managed to answer doctors» questions — using only his thoughts.

In another study, the brain of a patient who appeared to be in a vegetative state responded just like a healthy person's when asked to imagine playing a game of tennis.

A drug used to treat insomnia has paradoxically helped temporarily rouse three men who were each in a vegetative state following motor accidents, researchers claim.

In The Descendants, Clooney's character is faced with a life altering moment that his wife must be pulled from life support per her request written in her will should she ever be in a vegetative state.

Wondering what to do if your spouse is in a vegetative state from a traumatic brain injury?

Around the same time, Schiff heard about a female patient who had been in a vegetative state for nearly 20 years but sometimes blurted out a word, usually obscene.

For the first time, researchers have struck up a conversation with a man diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.

Brief background: Schiavo is a Florida woman who has been in a vegetative state since 1990.

Also, if I'm in vegetative state for more than six weeks, he can pull the plug.

A few years ago, a team led by Adrian Owen from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU) in Cambridge developed a test to check whether people believed to be in a vegetative state were actually conscious.

Now comes the remarkable news that neuroscientists have communicated with a man presumed to be in a vegetative state, by studying the activity in his brain with functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI.

Unexpectedly, the team also sporadically got a response from a person who had been thought to be in a vegetative state, suggesting that the system could provide a way to establish someone's level of consciousness (Current Biology, DOI: 10.1016 / j.cub.2013.06.011).

neuroscientist Adrian Owen of Western University in Ontario describes how his 1997 encounter with a patient named Kate led him to explore new ways to detect consciousness in patients who appear to be in a vegetative state.

«There's a man here who meets all the internationally agreed criteria for being in a vegetative state, yet he can generate 200 responses [to direct commands] with his brain,» says Adrian Owen of the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Patients who lose consciousness for more than a year are considered extremely unlikely to regain it, but a 35 - year - old Frenchman who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years has shown hints of awareness after having key brain regions electrically stimulated, scientists reported on Monday.

SIGNS of consciousness have been detected in three people thought to be in a vegetative state, with the help of an EEG, a cheap, portable device that can be used at the bedside.

Doctors found that two people thought to be in a vegetative state are able to add and subtract, meaning they may be conscious but «locked - in» and unable to move

Between these two extremes, patients may be said to be in a vegetative state or exhibit unresponsive wakefulness, characterized by open eyes and basic reflexes, but no signs of awareness.

If they «awaken», by showing signs of arousal but not awareness, they are said to be in a vegetative state.

Patient N, who had been in a vegetative state for three years following a motor vehicle accident, showed no signs of language comprehension and was constantly screaming.

The new study «opens the door to a whole new way» of searching for signs of awareness in people who have been misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state, Naci says.

The blow to his heart cut off blood supply to his brain, and after he had spent 3 weeks in a coma, doctors proclaimed him to be in a vegetative state — though his eyes were sometimes open, he appeared to be completely unaware of himself or his surroundings.

Those who were believed to be in a vegetative state — awake but completely unconscious — got very low scores (between 0.19 to 0.31).

Three separate studies, the most recent in 2009, indicate that up to 41 percent of people diagnosed as being in a vegetative state are, when more carefully examined, found to be at least partly aware.

Unexpectedly, the team also sporadically got a response from a patient who was previously suspected to be in a vegetative state, suggesting that the system could provide a new way to establish the level of consciousness in patients.

Then, in 2009, Owen's postdoctoral student Martin Monti asked one of them, a 22 - year - old who had been in a vegetative state for five years, to answer simple questions with his thoughts, using the output of the scans to communicate.

In 2006 a group led by neuroscientist Adrian Owen of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, England, used neuroimaging to pick up the thoughts of a woman who had been in a vegetative state for five months after a traffic accident.

It is possible that he was in a vegetative state when the diagnosis was received at 17 months and again 3.5 years after injury and subsequently regained some aspects of cognitive functioning.

Four of the five patients were considered to be in a vegetative state (including Patient 4, who has been described previously10), and all five patients had a traumatic brain injury (Table 1).

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.

There are tens of thousands of people in the United States who have been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state — unresponsive and unaware of their surroundings.

In addition to discovering ways to communicate with patients who appear to be in a vegetative state, Dr. Owen has used neuroimaging to illuminate the human brain's function and structure, and challenged long - held views about brain training and intelligence.

He had a stroke a few days after the surgery and was in a vegetative state for a year and a half until he died.

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.

If you are in a vegetative state, or in a coma, then an advanced health care directive is crucial in order to make sure the right choices are made on your behalf.

You will see from the compendium that the great majority of the claimants awarded money are not paralyzed nor are they in a vegetative state.