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• Particularities HRV of Adolescent with Vegetative Vascular Dysfunctions.
• We are studies peculiarity clinical trend vegetative dysfunctions of 1252 adolescents 15-18 years. The biggest part of them are vegetative vascular form (45,7%), more seldom forms are neirocirculator and vegetovisceral disfunction (26,3 and 19,7 %). ...
• Kardiointervalography data on adolescents with vegetative vascular dysfunctions testify the probable decrease of an intimate parameter of gumular regulation channel of a heart cycle and of functioning level of vegetative neurosis system, as well as heart parameter of parasympathicus link activity. ... Such changes on kardiointervalography testify the amplification influence of sympathetic vegetative neurosis system on increase of the central mechanism regulation. ... Teenagers with vegetative vascular dysfunctions more often show hypersympathicus variant of reaction (86,4 %), less often asympathicus (8,3 %). Normal vegetative reaction took place only at 5,3 % of the adolescent with vegetative vascular dysfunction. ...

•  Diseases > Persistent Vegetative State > Introduction.
• Persistent Vegetative State .
• - Basic Summary for Persistent Vegetative State .
• - Prognosis of Persistent Vegetative State .
• - Causes of Persistent Vegetative State .
• - Symptoms of Persistent Vegetative State .
• - Diagnostic Tests for Persistent Vegetative State .
• Introduction: Persistent Vegetative State.
• Persistent Vegetative State: Physically alive with basic mental function but without high mental capacity. ...
• 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. ...
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• "A Patient in a Vegetative State Is a Human Person".
• - The vegetative state is a "pejorative term" which implies lack of humanity, warns Dr. ...
• Nathan Zasler of the book "Life-Sustaining Treatments in Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas," reprinted in a special issue of the Neurorehabilitation review, published by Iospress. ...
• Q: What does it mean to be in a vegetative state and what is the Church's position? .
• Gigli: A vegetative state is verified in some patients when they come out of a coma, and it is characterized by a prolonged condition of wakefulness without apparent awareness on the part of the patient either of himself or of his surroundings. ...
• For the Church, the patient in a vegetative state is a human person, in need of affectionate care. ...
• Q: Up to what point is the vegetative state "vegetative"? .
• The vegetative state is diagnosed too often with excessive speed, with a high percentage of mistaken diagnoses, including within qualified health institutions. ...
• Q: What did John Paul II say that was new in the treatment of patients in vegetative state in his historic address last March 20? .
• Moreover, the Pope called for the raising of our societies' level of civilization, supporting with attentive solidarity the families of patients in vegetative state. ...
• Is there a meeting point between Catholics and Jews on the topic of nutrition and hydration in the vegetative state? .
• Dorff's article, which forms part of the work, clarifies adequately that for the majority of Orthodox rabbis and for many Conservative rabbis the doctor has the obligation to do everything possible to maintain the life of the patient in vegetative state. ...
• In general lines, however, it seems that we could say that the Jewish tradition is hesitant when it comes to suspending treatments such as hydration and nutrition, on which the life of a patient in vegetative sate depends. ...

• Persistent Vegetative State.
• Persistent vegetative state (PVS) has been at the center of much controversy in recent years. ...
• Persistent vegetative state is also often referred to a permanent vegetative state (although this is currently losing preference because there is the possibility of recovery) and has also been referred to as apallic syndrome or wachkoma in the past. ... In short, a wakeful unconscious state that lasts longer that a few weeks is referred to as a persistent vegetative state. ...
• These drugs are thought to be beneficial through stimulating neurons in the CNS leading to greater neurological activity that will hopefully aide in bringing the patient to a state of awareness beyond the vegetative state.
• Eye tracking and Emotional responses are the most common ways of determining whether a patient is responding, and therefore no longer in a vegetative state. ... This can be observed because persons in a vegetative state are unable to track moving objects or fixate their vision on an object, and as a patient recovers they regain this ability. ...
• A patient recovering from PVS usually recovers in a progressive manner where they move into a post vegetative state. ...
• Persistent vegetative state is a condition that will continue to be at the center of controversy until a greater understanding of the condition is found, and more accurate definitions and methods for diagnosis it are determined. ...
• htm The Permanent Vegetative State;Ethical Crux, Medical Fiction? March 11, 2000.
• htm Persistent Vegetative State; A Syndrome in Search of a Name, or a Judgment in Search of a Syndrome? March 4, 2000.
• Deep Cerebral Stimulation in Patients With Post-traumatic Vegetative State. ...
• Protocols for the Vegetative State. ...
• The Sensory Modality Assessment Rehabilitation Technique—A Tool for Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Severe Brain Injury in a Vegetative State. ...
• Outcome of Persistent Vegetative State Following Hypoxic or Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents. ...
• Iimpaired Effective Cortical Connectivity in Vegetative State: Preliminary Investigation Using PET. ...

• THE PERMANENT VEGETATIVE STATE; ETHICAL CRUX, MEDICAL FICTION?.
• 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). ... 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. ...
• The name Persistent Vegetative State was originally proposed by Jennett and Plum in 1972 to describe patients with brain damage in a state that was no longer coma but was not recovery - that showed "wakefulness without awareness". ...
• Some accidents and diseases leave their victims either in comas or in what doctors call a persistent vegetative state. In either case they are unconscious - though many patients in a persistent vegetative state have open, moving eyes - and the higher centers of their brains have been permanently damaged in a way that rules out any return to consciousness. ...
• Coons was not in a persistent vegetative state. ...
• (8) The number of people diagnosed as having the condition has therefore increased, and the Consensus Statement guesses that there are between 10,000 to 25,000 adults in the USA in a persistent vegetative state. ...
• A rough approximation of the total annual costs in the United States for the care of adults and children in a persistent vegetative state is $1 billion to $7 billion. ...
• By definition, patients in a persistent vegetative state are unaware of themselves or their environment. ... Thus, it is theoretically possible that a patient who appears to be in a persistent vegetative state retains awareness but shows no evidence of it. ...
• In rare cases, it may be difficult to distinguish a persistent vegetative state from a severe locked-in state. ...
• Patients in a vegetative state are usually not immobile. ...

•  World Medical Association Statement on Persistent Vegetative State.
• Present requirements of health reporting fails to provide an accurate estimate of the incidence and prevalence of worldwide individuals in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). ...
• Persistent Vegetative State .
• Persons with overwhelming damage to the cerebral hemispheres commonly pass into a chronic state of unconsciousness called the vegetative state in which the body cyclically awakens and sleeps but expresses no behavioral or cerebral metabolic evidence of possessing cognitive function or of being able to respond in a learned manner to external events or stimuli. ... When such cognitive loss lasts for more than a few weeks, the condition has been termed a persistent vegetative state (PVS) because the body retains the functions necessary to sustain vegetative survival. Recovery from the vegetative state is possible, especially during the first few days or weeks after onset, but the tragedy is that many persons in PVS live for many months or years if provided with nutritional and other supportive measures. ...
• Once qualified clinicians have determined that a person is awake but unaware, the permanence of the vegetative state depends on the nature of the brain injury, the duration of the period of unawareness, and the estimated prognosis. ... On the other hand, the chances of regaining independence after being vegetative for three months are vanishingly small. ...

• Coma and 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. ...
• 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. ... Patients in a vegetative state may appear somewhat normal. ...
• Once the patient is out of immediate danger, although still in coma or vegetative state, the medical care team will concentrate on preventing infections and maintaining the patient's physical state as much as possible. ...
• The outcome for coma and vegetative state depends on the cause and on the location, severity, and extent of neurological damage: outcomes range from recovery to death. ...
• Some patients may regain a degree of awareness after vegetative state. Others may remain in a vegetative state for years or even decades. The most common cause of death for a person in a vegetative state is infection such as pneumonia. ...

• --> International Working Party Report On The Vegetative State - 1996.
• REPORT ON THE VEGETATIVE STATE.
• Long-Term Implications Of Vegetative State.
• Vegetative Presentations: .
• Non-Vegetative Presentations:.
• The Role Of Investigations In The Management Of The Vegetative State .
• Drugs In The Treatment Of Vegetative State .
• Concept Of Being 'In' Or 'Out Of' Vegetative State.
• Long-term Implications of Vegetative State.
• Vegetative Presentations .
• Non-Vegetative States .
• This International Working Party was set up because several clinicians specialising in rehabilitation and chronic care were expressing concern that there was a general misunderstanding about the potential and management needs of patients in what is known as the 'Persistent Vegetative State'. A number of Working Parties had previously been set up but these had mainly been to discuss the ethical and policy issues surrounding the Vegetative State. ...
• The main concept behind the setting up of the Working Party was to bring together some of the clinicians from throughout the world with a special interest and experience in the rehabilitation and disability management of people in the Vegetative State. It was also recognised that there was a need to involve some neurologists and neurosurgeons who were more experienced in the early stage management of the Vegetative State in an attempt to provide a broad view of the problems and opportunities.
• The need for a Working Party on the Management of the Vegetative State was identified at the International Association of Studies in Traumatic Brain Injury conference in Tokyo, Japan in 1993 when several specialists in rehabilitation expressed concern that there were no formal guidelines for the treatment of patients in the Vegetative State. ...

• Schiavos trapped in Legislature's vegetative state.
• 1 issue at the start of this session will be -- drum roll, please -- Terri Schiavo, the woman who has been in a persistent vegetative state for the past 15 years.
• And when I describe Schiavo as being in a persistent vegetative state I'm not only talking about her mental abilities. Her real problem is that she is in a persistent vegetative state called Florida.

• 3821 0 0 VEGETATIVE FILTER STRIPS PROVING USEFUL FOR FARMERS AND RANCHERS PART 2.
•      The following is the second of a three part series on Vegetative Filter Strips (VFS) and their role and use in reducing the potential for nutrient transport from crop and pasture fields due to overland flow. ...

• Medical Aspects of the Persistent Vegetative State— First of Two Parts.
• Medical Aspects of the Persistent Vegetative State .
• This consensus statement of the Multi-Society Task Force summarizes current knowledge of the medical aspects of the persistent vegetative state in adults and children. ...
• The vegetative state is a clinical condition of complete unawareness of the self and the environment, accompanied by sleep-wake cycles, with either complete or partial preservation of hypothalamic and brain-stem autonomic functions. In addition, patients in a vegetative state show no evidence of sustained, reproducible, purposeful, or voluntary behavioral responses to visual, auditory, tactile, or noxious stimuli; show no evidence of language comprehension or expression; have bowel and bladder incontinence; and have variably preserved cranial-nerve and spinal reflexes. We define persistent vegetative state as a vegetative state present one month after acute traumatic or nontraumatic brain injury or lasting for at least one month in patients with degenerative or metabolic disorders or developmental malformations. ...
• The clinical course and outcome of a persistent vegetative state depend on its cause. ...
• Recovery of consciousness from a posttraumatic persistent vegetative state is unlikely after 12 months in adults and children. Recovery from a nontraumatic persistent vegetative state after three months is exceedingly rare in both adults and children. Patients with degenerative or metabolic disorders or congenital malformations who remain in a persistent vegetative state for several months are unlikely to recover consciousness. ...
• The Persistent Vegetative State.
• Auditory Processing in Severely Brain Injured Patients: Differences Between the Minimally Conscious State and the Persistent Vegetative State. ...
• Thalamic proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in vegetative state induced by traumatic brain injury. ...
• The vegetative state. ...
• Residual cerebral activity and behavioural fragments can remain in the persistently vegetative brain. ...
• Neuropathological Findings in the Brain of Karen Ann Quinlan -- The Role of the Thalamus in the Persistent Vegetative State. ...

• Pope Ends Debate over Nutrition and Hydration for Patients in Vegetative StateROME, March 20, 2004 (LifeSiteNews. com) - In a speech today to the international congress on "Life- sustaining treatments and the vegetative state", Pope John Paul II has made the first definitive statement on nutrition and hydration, ending years of debate among theologians. The Pope clarified that removal of nutrition and hydration from patients in a vegetative state who are not otherwise dying is gravely immoral. ... "The Bishops of Texas said a couple of years ago that nutrition and hydration in the case of a patient in a vegetative state was optional, however the Bishops of Pennsylvania said that nutrition and hydration were mandatory, just as the Pope has affirmed today. ...

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