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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on February 1, 1988. The length of the article is 6003 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Not dead, not dying? Ethical categories and persistent vegetative state.
Author: Daniel Wikler
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 1988
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v18Issue: n1Page: p41(7)

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This Special Issue of the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation aims to focus attention on key issues, to heighten awareness and stimulate interest in research on treatment of coma and persistent vegetative state. The first two papers are written by Professor Brian Jennett and Dr. Keith Andrews who present opinion on ethical issues and treatment in patients in persistent vegetative state. These papers are followed by a review of scales for measuring behavior in coma by the Southampton group together with the results of a pilot study on a new scale. There follows a paper on the clinical assessment of coma by Dr. E.A. Freeman and then a review of previously published studies on sensory stimulation as a treatment of coma by the editors. Finally, there are four research papers. These are on learning during coma by Dr. Barbara Wilson and the Southampton group; sensory regulation and recovery in coma by Dr. Rodger Wood and the Los Angeles group; evaluation of sensory stimulation using single case methodology inprolonged coma patients by workers at the Royal Home and Hospital, Putney; and on the effect of intense multi?sensory stimulation on coma arousal and recovery by the Philadelphia group. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Issues in Law & Medicine, published by National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. on June 22, 1992. The length of the article is 1074 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ragona v. Preate. (intent of persistent vegetative state patent to refuse life-sustaining treatment) (Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania)
Author: Daniel B. Griffith
Publication: Issues in Law & Medicine (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1992
Publisher: National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
Volume: 8Issue: n1Page: 109-111

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This digital document is an article from Issues in Law & Medicine, published by National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. on September 22, 1991. The length of the article is 5984 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The case of Mr. Stevens. (persistent vegetative state) (Symposium: Current Controversies in the Right to Live, the Right to Die)
Author: Ronald E. Cranford
Publication: Issues in Law & Medicine (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1991
Publisher: National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
Volume: 7Issue: n2Page: 199-211

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on February 1, 1988. The length of the article is 746 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The persistent problem of PVS. (persistent vegetative state)
Author: Susan M. Wolf
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 1988
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v18Issue: n1Page: p26(1)

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This digital document is an article from Issues in Law & Medicine, published by National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. on March 22, 1992. The length of the article is 2397 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: In re Sue Ann Lawrance. (never-competent patient now in a persistent vegetative state) (Indiana)
Author: Daniel B. Griffith
Publication: Issues in Law & Medicine (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1992
Publisher: National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
Volume: 7Issue: n4Page: 513-518

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on May 1, 1990. The length of the article is 887 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Exile and PVS. (persistent vegetative state)
Author: Lawrence J. Schneiderman
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1990
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v20Issue: n3Page: p5(1)

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on February 1, 1988. The length of the article is 4861 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The persistent vegetative state: the medical reality (getting the facts straight).
Author: Ronald E. Cranford
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 1988
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v18Issue: n1Page: p27(6)

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This digital document is an article from Nursing Law's Regan Report, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 937 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Was this 'irreversible coma' really irreversible?(persistent vegetative state petition)
Author: A. David Tammelleo
Publication: Nursing Law's Regan Report (Newsletter)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 46Issue: 8Page: 1(2)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, published by American Association of Neuroscience Nurses on June 1, 1996. The length of the article is 3503 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Persistent vegetative state provokes powerful emotional responses in caregivers and family members. Patients in this state may have periods of wakefulness but are unaware of their environment, so neurological nurses often must consult with family to make difficult decisions about life sustaining treatments. Nurses should also make clear the importance of informing family about advance care directives.

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Title: Persistent vegetative state: important considerations for the neuroscience nurse.
Author: Judy Ozuna
Publication: Journal of Neuroscience Nursing (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1996
Publisher: American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
Volume: v28Issue: n3Page: p199(5)

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on July 1, 1989. The length of the article is 1826 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Recovery from persistent vegetative state?: the case of Carrie Coons.
Author: Bonnie Steinbock
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1989
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v19Issue: n4Page: p14(2)

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on February 1, 1988. The length of the article is 3027 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: From Quinlan to Jobes: the courts and the PVS patient. (Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Ellen Jobes, persistent vegetative state)
Author: Paul W. Armstrong
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 1988
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v18Issue: n1Page: p37(4)

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This unique account surveys the medical, ethical, and legal issues that surround the vegetative state. The volume discusses the medical definition and criteria for diagnosis, its frequency and causes, and possible outcomes. The author also explores ethical arguments, including the conflict between sanctity of life and respect for the autonomy and best interests of the victim, and between killing and letting die. Legal issues are explored with details of landmark court cases from the U.S., Britain, and elsewhere. This well-informed and carefully constructed account will be a benchmark for medical specialists, ethicists, lawyers, and philosophers. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Issues in Law & Medicine, published by National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 5018 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Papal allocution on caring for persons in a "vegetative state".
Author: Robert Barry
Publication: Issues in Law & Medicine (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
Volume: 20Issue: 2Page: 155(10)

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Having been originally introduced as a term to facilitate discussion of a specific group of patients regarded as entering a state of unawareness following coma, the Persistent Vegetative State (PVS) has established itself as an apparently discrete medical condition with clear-cut implications for ethicists and lawyers that exceed any scientifically based understanding. As a consequence of this upgrading, conclusions drawn about the status and hence the management of this uncommon condition have been increasingly extended to other patients with much more common forms of disability.

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The authors have compiled into a practical text their experiencesencompassing over 20 years of work in the rehabilitation of patients in apersistent vegetative state. In addition to the partial or completerecovery of mental and neurological functions, another condition has beengaining in recognition in recent years: the state of minimal responder,which they elucidate in their book. This title bridges a gap in thespecialized literature by providing neurologists, emergency physicians,physiatrists, and internists, as well as therapists, with a new set oftools to aid them in obtaining more rapid progress in the treatment ofthese patients, whose improvement is wholly dependent upon them. A secondequally relevant aspect considered is the relationship of the care-givingphysician with the patient's family. Particular attention is given to theapproach the physician must take towards family members of the patientlacking mental activity. A third part illustrates the structural andinstrumental devices useful in planning and operating a unit specializedin the treatment of patients in the persistent vegetative state, withparticular attention given to the rules governing the unit. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, published by American Association of Neuroscience Nurses on October 1, 1997. The length of the article is 6972 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The use of the content methodology process (CMP) could provide a comprehensive method to systematically explore research and clinical knowledge in order to develop valid assessment tools and therapeutic approaches in nursing. This method, using five clearly defined steps, was utilized to assess the care of patients with postcomatose unawareness/vegetative state (PCU/VS). Two valuable tools to assess the abilities of these patients were identified using this method. Sensory regulation techniques incorporated into the routine care of these patients may improve their final outcome.

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Title: Postcomatose unawareness/vegetative state following severe brain injury: a content methodology.
Author: Diane L. Duff
Publication: Journal of Neuroscience Nursing (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1997
Publisher: American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
Volume: v29Issue: n5Page: p305(9)

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