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Persistent Vegetative State:     more books (68)

Recovery from persistent vegetative state?: the case of Carrie Coons.: An article from: The Hastings Center Report by Bonnie Steinbock, 1989-07-01 Persistent vegetative state: important considerations for the neuroscience nurse.: An article from: Journal of Neuroscience Nursing by Judy Ozuna, 1996-06-01 Ragona v. Preate. (intent of persistent vegetative state patent to refuse life-sustaining treatment) (Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania): An article from: Issues in Law & Medicine by Daniel B. Griffith, 1992-06-22 Not dead, not dying? Ethical categories and persistent vegetative state.: An article from: The Hastings Center Report by Daniel Wikler, 1988-02-01 The persistent vegetative state: the medical reality (getting the facts straight).: An article from: The Hastings Center Report by Ronald E. Cranford, 1988-02-01 Was this 'irreversible coma' really irreversible?(persistent vegetative state petition): An article from: Nursing Law's Regan Report by A. David Tammelleo, 2006-01-01 The persistent problem of PVS. (persistent vegetative state): An article from: The Hastings Center Report by Susan M. Wolf, 1988-02-01 The Catholic Center at Tufts University presents: the Roman Catholic perspective on the morality of withdrawing or withholding food and fluid administered ... in the persistent vegetative state by David M O'Leary, 2001 From Quinlan to Jobes: the courts and the PVS patient. (Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Ellen Jobes, persistent vegetative state): An article from: The Hastings Center Report by Paul W. Armstrong, B.D. Colen, 1988-02-01 In re Sue Ann Lawrance. (never-competent patient now in a persistent vegetative state) (Indiana): An article from: Issues in Law & Medicine by Daniel B. Griffith, 1992-03-22 Exile and PVS. (persistent vegetative state): An article from: The Hastings Center Report by Lawrence J. Schneiderman, 1990-05-01 The case of Mr. Stevens. (persistent vegetative state) (Symposium: Current Controversies in the Right to Live, the Right to Die): An article from: Issues in Law & Medicine by Ronald E. Cranford, 1991-09-22 Medical/legal problems of the terminally ill patients: Including those resulting from brain death and the persistent vegetative state (Position paper / Florida Association of Hospital Attorneys) by Joel T Strawn, 1980 Doctors' views on the management of patients in persistent vegetative state (PVS): A UK study

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1. Coma And Persistent Vegetative State
   A look at coma and persistent vegetative state. Includes a discussion on treatments and prognosis.  
   http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/921394859.html
   
   Extractions: Subscribe now >> A coma is a profound or deep state of unconsciousness. The affected individual is alive but is not able to react or respond to life around him/her. Coma may occur as an expected progression or complication of an underlying illness, or as a result of an event such as head trauma. A persistent vegetative state, which sometimes follows a coma, refers to a condition in which individuals have lost cognitive neurological function and awareness of the environment but retain noncognitive function and a perserved sleep-wake cycle. It is sometimes described as when a person is technically alive, but his/her brain is dead. However, that description is not completely accurate. In persistent vegetative state the individual loses the higher cerebral powers of the brain, but the functions of the brainstem, such as respiration (breathing) and circulation, remain relatively intact. Spontaneous movements may occur and the eyes may open in response to external stimuli, but the patient does not speak or obey commands. Patients in a vegetative state may appear somewhat normal. They may occasionally grimace, cry, or laugh. Is there any treatment?

2. Responding To Patients In The Persistent Vegetative State - An Ethical And Legal
   Discusses the withdrawal of food and fluids from PVS patients without other complicating conditions from a Christian viewpoint.  
   http://www.xenos.org/ministries/crossroads/donal/pvs.htm
   
   Extractions: Responding to Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State Donal P. O'Mathuna, Ph.D. Philosophia Christi 19.2 (Fall 1996): 55-83. This journal is a publication of the Evangelical Philosophical Society Modern medicine has provided people with many great benefits, but it has also forced people to make difficult ethical decisions. One of the hardest of these is to let a loved one die when medical technology could keep him or her alive. People must now decide if and when they would want certain treatments withheld or withdrawn from themselves or others. The ethical issues involved raise questions about autonomy, quality of life, appropriate use of resources, the wishes of family members, professional responsibilities, and many more. The withdrawing of food and fluids from patients in persistent vegetative state (PVS) is one of these tragic situations. This term was first coined in 1972, and the condition has since been the subject of much ethical and legal debate.

3. The Crossroads Project - Explain And Defend The Christian Message In Today's Cul
   This article was published in Philosophia Christi 19.2 (Fall 1996) 5583. This journal is a publication of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.  
   http://www.crossrds.org/donal/pvs.htm

4. Persistent Vegetative State
   persistent vegetative state (PVS) is subject to a high degree of error as a diagnosis, a high measure of confusion as to definitiuon, and an  
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5. Coma And Persistent Vegetative State Information Page National
   Coma and persistent vegetative state data compiled by The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.  
   http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

6. Persistent Vegetative State
   persistent vegetative state (PVS) is subject to a high degree of error as a diagnosis, a high measure of confusion as to definitiuon, and an inflation of  
   http://www.thalidomide.ca/gwolbring/pvsilm.htm
   
   Extractions: In 1994 a Multi-Society Task Force made up of representatives of the American Academy of Neurology, the Child Neurology Society, the American Neurological Association, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and the American Academy of Pediatrics produced a Consensus Statement on the Medical Aspects of the Persistent Vegetative State (PVS). This Statement presents a picture of the degree of diagnostic certainty achievable in this area that is in many respects misleading. Its attempt to propose a condition called Permanent Vegetative State, which would be based on a high degree of medical certainty either that there is no further hope for recovery of consciousness or that, if consciousness were recovered, the patient would be left severely disabled, confuses two different issues. In 1994 a Multi-Society Task Force made up of representatives of the American Academy of Neurology, the Child Neurology Society, the American Neurological Association, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and the American Academy of Pediatrics produced a Consensus Statement on the Medical Aspects of the Persistent Vegetative State (PVS). The vegetative state can be diagnosed according to the following criteria; (1) no evidence of awareness of self or environment and an inability to interact with others; (2) no evidence of sustained, reproducible, purposeful, or voluntary behavioural responses to visual, auditory, tactile, or noxious stimuli; (3) no evidence of language comprehension or expression; (4) intermittent wakefulness manifested by the presence of sleep-wake cycles; (5) sufficiently preserved hypothalamic and brain-stem autonomic function to permit survival with medical and nursing care; (6) bowel and bladder incontinence; and (7) variably preserved cranial-nerve reflexes (pupillary, oculophalic, corneal, vestibulo-ocular, and gag) and spinal reflexes..... A wakeful unconscious state that lasts longer than a few weeks is referred to as a persistent vegetative state.

7. Brain Death And Brain Injury Resources
   A resource including the Japanese controversy, diagnosing, persistent vegetative state and religious views.  
   http://www.changesurfer.com/BD/Brain.html
   
   Extractions: Network for the Definition of Death Brain Injury and Brain Death Resources Program and Abstracts of the Symposia on Brain Death "Consciousness as a definition of death: its appeal and complexity," Calixto Machado MD, PhD Clinical Electroencephalography. 1999 Oct;30(4):156-64 Word HTML "A new definition of death based on the basic mechanisms of consciousness generation in human beings" 1998. Calixto Machado MD, PhD When Death Is Not the End March 2, 1996. George Annas Special issue of the University of Pittsburgh's 1996 ethics newsletter on brain death Survey of Japanese about Proposed Brain Death Legislation , May 24-25, 1997 Brain Death and Transplantation in Japan International Network for Life Studies Brain Death Case Discussion Ethics Committee Core Curriculum: Brain Death by Jack Freer Determination of Death Consensus Conference: Voluntary Consensus Guidelines for Determination of Death University of Buffalo Brain Death Coma Recovery Association Brain Death University of Missouri "What is Brain Death?"

8. NOTES ON THE PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE
   The persistent vegetative state (PVS) is characterized by permanent unconsciousness even though the patient may appear awake.  
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9. Coma And Persistent Vegetative State Information Page: National Institute Of Neu
   Coma and persistent vegetative state information sheet compiled by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).  
   http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/coma/coma.htm
   
   Extractions: A coma is a profound or deep state of unconsciousness. An individual in a state of coma is alive but unable to move or respond to his or her environment. Coma may occur as a complication of an underlying illness, or as a result of injuries, such as head trauma. A persistent vegetative state (commonly, but incorrectly, referred to as "brain-death") sometimes follows a coma. Individuals in such a state have lost their thinking abilities and awareness of their surroundings, but retain non-cognitive function and normal sleep patterns. Even though those in a persistent vegetative state lose their higher brain functions, other key functions such as breathing and circulation remain relatively intact. Spontaneous movements may occur, and the eyes may open in response to external stimuli. They may even occasionally grimace, cry, or laugh. Although individuals in a persistent vegetative state may appear somewhat normal, they do not speak and they are unable to respond to commands.

10. Coma And Persistent Vegetative State
    A look at coma and persistent vegetative state. Includes a discussion on treatments and prognosis.  
    http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

11. Coma And Persistent Vegetative State Press Releases: National Institute Of Neuro
    Coma and persistent vegetative state information sheet compiled by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).  
    http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/coma/press_coma.htm

12. NINDS Forwarding Page
    Coma and persistent vegetative state data compiled by The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.  
    http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/disorders/coma_doc.htm

13. Persistent Vegetative State
    persistent vegetative state (PVS) has been at the center of much controversy in recent years.  
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14. Persistent Vegetative State - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
    A persistent vegetative state (PVS) is a condition of patients with severe brain Patients in a persistent vegetative state are usually considered to be  
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_vegetative_state
    
    Extractions: You did it! Over US$240,000 was donated in the 21 day fund drive. Thank you for your generosity! You are still welcome to make a donation or purchase Wikimedia merchandise A persistent vegetative state (PVS) is a condition of patients with severe brain damage in whom coma has progressed to a state of wakefulness without detectable awareness . There is controversy in both the medical and legal fields as to whether this condition is irreversible. The syndrome was first described 1940 by Ernst Kretschmer after whom it also has been called Kretschmer syndrome . (Das apallische Syndrom, in .Neurol.Psychiat, 169,576-579 (1940) The term was coined in by Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and American neurologist Fred Plum to describe a syndrome that seemed to have been made possible by medicine 's increased capacities to keep patients' bodies alive. PVS is also known as cortical death , although it is not the same as coma or brain death Patients in a persistent vegetative state are usually considered to be unconscious and unaware. They may experience

15. World Medical Association
    WMA policy Statement on persistent vegetative state. Includes a definition, recovery and guidelines.  
    http://www.wma.net/e/policy/17-v_e.html

16. THE PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE AND THE WITHDRAWAL OF NUTRITION
    THE persistent vegetative state AND THE WITHDRAWAL OF NUTRITION AND HYDRATION JETS 35/3 (September 1992) 389405 Robert V. Rakestraw  
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17. Introduction: Persistent Vegetative State - WrongDiagnosis.com
    Introduction to persistent vegetative state as a medical condition including symptoms, diagnosis, misdiagnosis, treatment, prevention, and prognosis.  
    http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/p/persistent_vegetative_state/intro.htm
    
    Extractions: Persistent Vegetative State: A persistent vegetative state, which sometimes follows a coma, refers to a condition in which individuals have lost cognitive neurological function and awareness of the environment but retain noncognitive function and a perserved sleep-wake cycle. It is sometimes described as when a person is technically alive, but his/her brain is dead. However, that description is not completely accurate. Researching symptoms of Persistent Vegetative State: Further information about the symptoms of Persistent Vegetative State is available including a list of symptoms of Persistent Vegetative State , other diseases that might have similar symptoms in differential diagnosis of Persistent Vegetative State , or alternatively return to research other symptoms in the

18. Brain Death And Brain Injury Resources
    A resource including the Japanese controversy, diagnosing, persistent vegetative state and religious views.  
    http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

19. Symptoms Of Persistent Vegetative State - WrongDiagnosis.com
    Symptoms of persistent vegetative state including signs, symptoms, incubation period, duration, and correct diagnosis.  
    http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/p/persistent_vegetative_state/symptoms.htm
    
    Extractions: Feedback General information about symptoms of Persistent Vegetative State: The symptom information on this page attempts to provide a list of some possible symptoms of Persistent Vegetative State. This symptom information has been gathered from various sources, may not be fully accurate, and may not be the full list of symptoms of Persistent Vegetative State. Furthermore, symptoms of Persistent Vegetative State may vary on an individual basis for each patient. Only your doctor can provide adequate diagnosis of symptoms and whether they are indeed symptoms of Persistent Vegetative State. List of symptoms of Persistent Vegetative State: The list of symptoms mentioned in various sources for Persistent Vegetative State includes: Lost cognitive function Lack of awareness of the environment Preserved non-cognitive function Preserved sleep-wake cycle ... Preserved respiration (breathing) Preserved circulation

20. Coma Recovery Association, Inc. - International Working Party
    there was a general misunderstanding about the potential and management needs of patients in what is known as the 'persistent vegetative state'.  
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