Persistent Vegetative State Chronic Damage Brain Diseases Neurological Disorders
Vegetative state refers to the neurocognitive status of individuals with severe brain damage, in whom physiologic functions (sleep-wake cycles, autonomic control, and breathing) persist, but awareness (including all cognitive function and emotion) is abolished.
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- MCW HealthLink - A look at coma and persistent vegetative state. Includes a persistent vegetative state discussion on treatments and prognosis.
- Responding to Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State - An Ethical and Legal Dilemma. - This article was published in Philosophia Christi 19.2 (Fall 1996): persistent vegetative state 55-83. This journal is a publication of the Evangelical Philosophical persistent vegetative state Society.
- World Medical Association - WMA policy: Statement on persistent vegetative state. Includes chronic damage a persistent vegetative state definition, recovery and guidelines.
- NINDS Information Page - Coma and persistent vegetative state data compiled by The National brain diseases Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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