• vegetative state, the patient is classified as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). This diagnosis is classified as a permanent vegetative state...
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  • attention in a court case on euthanasia after spending over 41 years in a vegetative state as a result of a sexual assault. In 1973, while working as a junior...
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  • who awoke from coma-like states, such as a persistent vegetative state, minimally conscious state, catatonic stupor, or locked-in syndrome after a lengthy...
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    conscious state or MCS is a disorder of consciousness distinct from persistent vegetative state and locked-in syndrome. Unlike persistent vegetative state, patients...
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  • Look up vegetative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vegetative describes vegetation. Vegetative may also refer to: Vegetative reproduction, a type of...
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  • for 221 days due to a brain hemorrhage. He was then in a persistent vegetative state and unable to speak. He was eventually released from the hospital,...
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  • December 3, 1963 – March 31, 2005), a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state. Schiavo's husband and legal guardian argued that Schiavo would not...
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  • arousal. This category generally includes minimally conscious state and persistent vegetative state, but sometimes also includes the less severe locked-in syndrome...
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    the vocal cords themselves may not be paralysed. Unlike persistent vegetative state, in which the upper portions of the brain are damaged and the lower...
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    some progress to a vegetative state or a minimally conscious state, and others die. Some patients who have entered a vegetative state go on to regain a...
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  • Debbie to perform a Mahakala Mahayana Pooja while Srinivasan lies in a vegetative state, under life support, treated by Dr. Richard, Debbie's father-in-law...
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    when the surrounding vegetative cell is degraded. Endospores are resistant to most agents that would normally kill the vegetative cells they formed from...
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    development in early childhood, followed by rapid degeneration to a vegetative state. The other forms of ALD vary in timing of onset and in clinical severity...
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    in Tübingen. Kretschmer was the first to describe the persistent vegetative state which has also been called Kretschmer's syndrome. Another medical term...
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  • involuntary activity necessary to sustain life. It differs from persistent vegetative state, in which the person is alive and some autonomic functions remain....
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  • pencil is horizontal or vertical. Patients who are clinically in a vegetative state (show no awareness of their surroundings) are found to have no awareness...
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  • charge of subversion. In June 2017, he was released by North Korea in a vegetative state and died soon after his parents requested his feeding tube be removed...
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  • lifespans of those who were unconscious, minimally unconscious, and in a vegetative state were short as they were unable to receive assistance with basic needs...
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    are awake, in REM sleep or in a locked-in state than in those who are in deep sleep or in a vegetative state, making it potentially useful as a quantitative...
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  • consent through a living will, and must be either terminally ill or in a vegetative state. The procedural guidelines were streamlined and relaxed by the Supreme...
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  • McMurphy is brought back in. He has received a lobotomy, and is now in a vegetative state, rendering him silent and motionless. The Chief smothers McMurphy with...
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  • of Fortune. Sunny von Bülow lived almost 28 years in a persistent vegetative state, from December 1980 until her death in a New York City nursing home...
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  • disaster. He suffered severe brain damage that left him in a persistent vegetative state as a consequence of which the hospital, with the support of his parents...
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  • he began losing voluntary motor control and eventually fell into a vegetative state for three years. He began regaining consciousness around age 16 and...
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  • while on a crash diet and lapsed into a coma, followed by a persistent vegetative state. After doctors refused the request of her parents (Joseph and Julia...
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  • death. He receives a letter from Krishnamoorthy stating that Aravindan is not dead but in a vegetative state, not responding to anyone and only sitting in...
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    brain injury and is a major cause of unconsciousness and persistent vegetative state after severe head trauma. It occurs in about half of all cases of severe...
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    result of the injuries he sustained, Colón fell into a persistent vegetative state where he no longer could move or talk. As of July 2021, 6 years after...
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    consciousness. Ventricular tachycardia may lead to coma and persistent vegetative state due to lack of blood and oxygen to the brain. Ventricular tachycardia...
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  • precepts, someone who is in a vegetative state is neither dead nor alive, but instead is said to be in some form of obscure state of mind and still a living...
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