Moral significance of phenomenal consciousness. by Levy, N, Savulescu, J

“…Recent work in neuroimaging suggests that some patients diagnosed as being in the persistent vegetative state are actually conscious. In this paper, we critically examine this new evidence. …”

Effects of some parameters in upscale culture of Haematococcus pluvialis Flotow by LH. Sipaúba-Tavares, RN. Millan, FA. Berchielli-Morais

“…Data obtained in current study for the upscale culture maintenance of H. pluvialis in laboratory conditions shows that it should be undertaken in a 13-L volume due to a greater time span of cells in a vegetative state, greater cell density, lipids and chlorophyll-a contents. …”
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Rapid Sequence Intubation from the Patient’s Perspective by Sean Henderson, Crystal Ives, Deborah Kimball, Ramon C Kincaide

“…</p> <p>Results: Of 211 airway codes, 201 were excluded due to death before extubation, transfer, or persistent vegetative state, leaving 10 awake, alert subjects who were interviewed regarding their recollection of the RSI and resuscitation. …”
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How Energy Supports Our Brain to Yield Consciousness: Insights From Neuroimaging Based on the Neuroenergetics Hypothesis by Yali Chen, Jun Zhang, Jun Zhang

“…Based on the findings of physiology-induced (sleep), pharmacology-induced (general anesthesia), and pathology-induced [vegetative state/unresponsive wakeful syndrome (VS/UWS)] loss of consciousness in both human subjects and animals, we, in this study, suggest that the energetic-metabolic processes focusing on ATP, glucose, and γ-aminobutyrate/glutamate are indispensable for functional connectivity (FC) of normal brain networks that renders consciousness possible. …”
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Prognostication after cardiac arrest by Claudio Sandroni, Sonia D’Arrigo, Jerry P. Nolan

“…A poor neurological outcome—defined as death from neurological cause, persistent vegetative state, or severe neurological disability—can be predicted in these patients by assessing the severity of HIBI. …”
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Autonomic responsivity and semantic associative competences in disturb of consciousness by Michela Balconi, Rachele Stoppelli, Maria Elide Vanutelli

“…We intended to verify the preservation of semantic linguistic processes in Vegetative State (VS) and Minimal Consciousness State (MCS) by considering arousal modulation. …”
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Large-Scale Brain Simulation and Disorders of Consciousness. Mapping Technical and Conceptual Issues by Michele Farisco, Michele Farisco, Jeanette H. Kotaleski, Jeanette H. Kotaleski, Kathinka Evers

“…In this paper we investigate the plausibility of simulation technologies for emulation of consciousness and the potential clinical impact of large-scale brain simulation on the assessment and care of disorders of consciousness (DOCs), e.g., Coma, Vegetative State/Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome, Minimally Conscious State. …”
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Post-traumatic disorders of consciousness: neuroimaging studies in the recovery process by Oleksandr V. Kulyk

“…As a result of the calculation of correlation dependencies we identified the greatest significance of the severity of diffuse post-traumatic changes for the prediction of reaching higher levels of consciousness or staying in a vegetative state, and solid dynamics of consciousness recovery to the highest possible level in a group of patients with diagnosed focal post-traumatic changes of moderate severity combined with diffuse changes of mild and moderate severity were determined in the course of research.…”
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Mapping multispectral Digital Images using a Cloud Computing software: applications from UAV images by Jose Ramon Saura, Ana Reyes-Menendez, Pedro Palos-Sanchez

“…This paper reports an experience related to the analysis of a vineyard with multispectral photogrammetry technology and UAVs and it demonstrates its great potential to analyze the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), the Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) applied in the agriculture framework to collect information on the vegetative state of the crop, soil and plant moisture, and biomass density maps of. …”
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It is never lawful or ethical to withdraw life-sustaining treatment from patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness by Foster, C

“…This article contends that this presumption means that it is always unlawful to withdraw life-sustaining treatment from patients in permanent vegetative state (PVS) and minimally conscious state (MCS), and that the reasons for this being the correct legal analysis mean also that such withdrawal will always be ethically unacceptable. …”

Structural connectome alterations in patients with disorders of consciousness revealed by 7-tesla magnetic resonance imaging by Xufei Tan, Zhen Zhou, Jian Gao, Fanxia Meng, Yamei Yu, Jie Zhang, Fangping He, Ruili Wei, Junyang Wang, Guoping Peng, Xiaotong Zhang, Gang Pan, Benyan Luo

“…Significantly increased transitivity was observed in vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome compared with minimally conscious state (p = .0217, Bonferroni corrected). …”
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Rol del curador provisorio y posibilidad de realizar una transacción en nombre de su representado desde la “perspectiva de vulnerabilidad” / Role of the provisional curator and pos... by Gisela M. Cafure

“…Through a recent ruling issued by the Hon. 5th Chamber of Appeals in Civil and Commercial Matters of the city of Córdoba, it was decided that the competent judge to understand in a capacity limitation process must grant judicial authorization to the provisional curator of a person in a vegetative state to sign an agreement arrived at in a process of damages on behalf of their represented, jointly with the Legal Advisor that has the character of complementary representative.…”
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Pulmonary Hemodynamics, Cerebral Oxygenation, Intracranial and Perfusion Pressures in Pulmonary Complications in Victims with Severe Brain Injury by Yu. A. Churlyaev, V. Ya. Martynenkov, M. L. Sytin, L. Yu. Redkokasha, Yu. I. Mikhailovichev

“…Of them, 30 patients made up a study group with poor prognosis (death, vegetative state, and severe disability). In the presence of negative clinical and neurological changes, they developed pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) of different stages, ARDS concurrent with pneumonias. …”
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Endoscopy-assisted cerebral falx incision via unilateral by DONG Ji-rong, XU Qin-yi, CAI Xue-jian, WANG Biao, WANG Yu-hai, SHI Zhong-hua, LIU Bing, CAI Sang, HE Jian-qing, HU Xu

“…Results: Seventeen cases (54.8%) in the unilateral operation group survived and were in good condition, 8 (25.8%) had moderate disability, 4 (12.9%) had severe disability, 1 (3.2%) was in vegetative state, and 1 (3.2%) died. Compared with the control group, the Glasgow Out-come Scale score was not significantly different in the uni-lateral operation group, but the operation time, blood trans-fusion volume, the length of hospital stay, the incidences of mental disorder and olfactory nerve injury were greatly reduced in the unilateral operation group. …”
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Severe Hypoglycemia Due To the Administration of Bromocriptine in a Non-Diabetic Patient: A Case Study by Saeed Choobkar, Samad Nazarpoor, Mojgan kaviani

“…The patient was a 24-year-old man with persistent vegetative state following severe traumatic brain injury due to a car accident, who was referred to the emergency department with a generalized tonic-clonic seizure due to severe hypoglycemia. …”
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Morphology of the invasive 'Carpobrotus' (Aizoaceae) in Europe: Malta as a case study by Stephen Mifsud

“…This comparative morphological study resulted in a new characteristic in the leaves of C. edulis, by which it could be easily distinguished from C. acinaciformis in the vegetative state. A detailed discussion about the two different morphotypes of C. acinaciformis s.l. and dichotomous keys to distinguish Carpobrotus taxa are also provided. …”
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The stochastic dynamical behaviors of the gene regulatory circuit in Bacillus subtilis by Liang Wang, Mei Huang, Xiaole Yue, Wantao Jia, Wei Xu

“…We found that the system parameters and noise can induce the occurrence of the stochastic P-bifurcation in the stochastic system, which means that the conversion between competent state and vegetative state in Bacillus subtilis is possible. In addition, the effectiveness of the stochastic generalized cell mapping method is verified by Monte Carlo simulation.…”
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Diffuse cerebral vasospasm after resection of&nbsp;schwannoma: a case report by Qi J,Zhang LW, Jia W, Zhang JT, Wu Z

“…Despite treatments, the patient was in a persistent vegetative state after surgery, with normal vital signs. …”
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Deactivation of the default mode network as a marker of impaired consciousness: an fMRI study. by Julia Sophia Crone, Gunther Ladurner, Yvonne Höller, Stefan Golaszewski, Eugen Trinka, Martin Kronbichler

“…Seventeen patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS, former vegetative state), 8 patients in minimally conscious state (MCS), and 25 healthy controls were investigated with functional magnetic resonance imaging during a passive sentence listening task. …”
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Cerebral Vasospasm – A serious obstacle in a successful aneurysm surgery by Florin Stefanescu, Stefanita Dima, Ram Vakilnejad, Mugurel Radoi

“…One patient did not benefit from this treatment and had a poor clinical outcome, remaining in a vegetative state. Conclusions: Cerebral vasoconstriction after SAH could be an important obstacle in obtaining very good results in aneurysm surgery. …”
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