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The vegetative state is a chronic or long-term condition. This condition differs from a coma: a coma is a state that lacks both awareness and wakefulness.Patients in a vegetative state may have awoken from a coma, but still have not regained awareness.
This category generally includes minimally conscious state and persistent vegetative state, but sometimes also includes the less severe locked-in syndrome and more severe but rare chronic coma. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Differential diagnosis of these disorders is an active area of biomedical research .
Persistent vegetative state (vegetative coma), deep coma without detectable awareness. Damage to the cortex, with an intact brainstem. Damage to the cortex, with an intact brainstem. Process Oriented Coma Work , for an approach to working with residual consciousness in comatose patients.
Vegetative symptoms are disturbances of a person's functions necessary to maintain life (vegetative functions). These disturbances are most commonly seen in mood disorders, and are part of the diagnostic criteria for depression, but also appear in other conditions. [1] Vegetative symptoms in a patient with typical depression include: [2]
A woman said to have been in a vegetative state for at least a decade reportedly gave birth recently, triggering a police investigation.
Brain death can sometimes be difficult to differentiate from other medical states such as barbiturate overdose, acute alcohol poisoning, sedative overdose, hypothermia, hypoglycemia, coma, and chronic vegetative states. Some comatose patients can recover to pre-coma or near pre-coma level of functioning, and some patients with severe ...
Police in Phoenix, Arizona, released dramatic audio Friday of a 911 call placed by a nurse at a long-term care facility after a woman who has been in a vegetative state for years gave birth.
A 34-year old, who was believed to be in an unconscious vegetative state after suffering cardiac arrest 16 years ago, was shown the 1961 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' episode "Bang! You're Dead."