Sentences with phrase «vegetative state»

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

«My father suffered a post-operative stroke in 1983 and lingered in a persistent vegetative state for several years.

In 1999, Louis Viljoen — who had been in a persistent vegetative state for three years — began to make erratic movements at night.

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.

Recent research has revealed that about 40 percent of vegetative state diagnoses is incorrect.

Things take a major turn for Israel when Jackson suffers a catastrophic heart attack and goes into vegetative state.

In the game, players once again take on the role of B.J Blazkowicz who awakens from a 14 year vegetative state in a Polish asylum just before he is about to be executed.

Throughout years of R&D and studying industrial agriculture, Bilton has come up with a way to keep the cannabis plants in an extended vegetative state.

He found that the connectivity of people in permanently vegetative states turns out to be different from that of people who eventually regain awareness.

If certain parts of the thalamocortical system are destroyed, you are in a chronic vegetative state; you don't have consciousness.

«Clearly this guy is not in a true vegetative state.

Experimental nerve - stimulation therapy partially revives man in long - term vegetative state — but experts urge caution

Julia Brown's report of the efforts of neuroscientist Adrian Owen to detect cognition in people in vegetative states alarms me...

«I explained how we go through the assessment process, the importance of differential diagnosis, distinguishing between vegetative state and minimally conscious state.

Meet Kate, the first vegetative state patient to show that part of her was still in there through brain scanning.

However, it's then revealed that this in fact was a delusion, and his wife's captivity actually has left her disfigured and emaciated almost beyond recognition to the point where she is in an almost vegetative state.

The questions aren't asked to help the reader tap into the agonizing issues related to Terri Schiavo's feeding tube and partial vegetative state.

Commonly, this form is used to declare «do not resuscitate» (or DNR), meaning that, if your doctor has determined you can not and will not emerge from a coma or other vegetative state, they will not keep you on life support indefinitely.

This past week I've been in a somewhat vegetative state, moving just enough to click my mouse on 154 room transformations that took place over at Calling It Home.

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.

In your article on using scanning methods to communicate with people in vegetative states (24 August 2013, p 14), Lorena...

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate preserved conscious awareness in a patient fulfilling the criteria for a diagnosis of vegetative state.

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).

Grace and Ubelhart sell clones, which are clippings from mother plants, a high - quality plant that will continuously produce potent buds if put into a vegetative state.

* Fun fact: Campbell was the lawyer for Terri Schiavo's parents in their national, politically charged and ultimately unsuccessful fight against Schiavo's husband to prevent him from ending the life of the woman, who was in an irreversible persistent vegetative state, in 2005.

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

She was said to be, in the current jargon, in a persistent vegetative state (PVS).

Instead, it is a matter of «policy» that simply must be «debated» at great length in public, no matter how grotesque or obscene the spectacle of conducting such business around the bent form of a woman in a vegetative state.»

And also unnecessary... excepting those who are simply in an air breathing but vegetative state of mind.

Many of us have read about people languishing in vegetative states, restrained in wheelchairs or totally unconscious, and have thought, «What a waste of money.»

How can we have a president who thinks birth control is satanic or rejects the use of science to detect early fetal issues to save the life of the mother and / or potentially prevent a baby born in a vegetative state?

Wilson gave an example of moral respect persisting in difficult circumstances: «An elderly man who has been a devoted husband and father but who now lies comatose in a vegetative state barely seems to be alive,... yet we experience great moral anguish in deciding whether to withdraw his life support.»

[15] «Tube Feeding and the «Vegetative State,»» Ethics and Medics, 23, no. 12 (December 1998): 2.

In Payne et al., «Physicians» Attitudes about the Care of Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State: A National Survey,» Annals of Internal Medicine, 125, no. 2 (15 July 1996): 104 - 110, researchers point to an emerging consensus of attitudes and beliefs among physicians who care for PVS patients.

[16] Andrews et al., «Misdiagnosis of the Vegetative State: Retrospective Study in a Rehabilitation Unit,» British Medical Journal, 313 (6 July 1996): 13 - 16, report on a study of forty PVS patients at Britain's Royal Hospital for Neurodisability.

[14] O'Rourke, «A Response to William E. May's «Tube Feeding and the «Vegetative State,»» Ethics and Medics, 24, no. 4 (April 1999): 3 - 4.

[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.

The researchers found that seventeen (43 \ %) had been misdiagnosed by their referring physicians as being in PVS; thirteen (33 \ %) slowly emerged from the vegetative condition during rehabilitation therapy; and only ten (25 \ %) remained in the vegetative state.

To me, that would be a fate worse than the vegetative state.

Dr Owen is reported to have said that it is «inevitable [that] in the very near future» a means would be found of enabling people in a vegetative state to answer questions about their condition and express their needs.

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).

The church that does not die chooses instead to live in a vegetative state on artificial life support.

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».