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DescriptionVegetative 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.

Persistent Vegetative State

World Medical Association (Site) - WMA policy: Statement on persistent vegetative state. Includes a definition, recovery and guidelines.
MCW HealthLink (Site) - A look at coma and persistent vegetative state. Includes a discussion on treatments and prognosis.
NINDS Information Page (Site) - Coma and persistent vegetative state data compiled by The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Responding to Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State - An Ethical and Legal Dilemma. (Site) - This article was published in Philosophia Christi 19.2 (Fall 1996): 55-83. This journal is a publication of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.

World Medical Association (Site) - WMA policy: Statement on persistent vegetative state. Includes a definition, recovery and guidelines.
MCW HealthLink (Site) - A look at coma and persistent vegetative state. Includes a discussion on treatments and prognosis.
NINDS Information Page (Site) - Coma and persistent vegetative state data compiled by The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Responding to Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State - An Ethical and Legal Dilemma. (Site) - This article was published in Philosophia Christi 19.2 (Fall 1996): 55-83. This journal is a publication of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.
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Conscious in a Vegetative State A Critique of the PVS Concept International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (Books) - Only
In re Guardianship of Theresa Marie Schiavo opinion of the Court of Appeal of Florida. An article from Issues in Law Medicine (Books) - Only
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Photo Getty Images In this family photograph, Terri Schiavo is shown before she had a heart attack and fell into a persistent vegetative state. (Image) - terriyoung.jpg
Amber Satterwhite at 16, two years after doctors determined her to be in an irreversible persistent vegetative state. And neither is it right to ask Terri Schiavos parents, Bob and (Image) - 903.ambermug.jpg.image
Commentary on the Terri Shiavo case from Get Your War On For those of you who dont know, Terri Shiavo is a brain injury victim who is in a persistent vegetative state. Her husband has been campaigning for years to remove her feeding tube and let (Image) - get-your-war-on-45.png
Autopsy Confirms Terry Schiavo Was In Persistent Vegetative State Findings Dont Reveal Cause Of Collapse in 1990 (Image) - Schiavo+2.jpg
attorney David Gibbs III speaks with reporters outside the Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park just before visiting with Terri after her feeding tube was removed by court order March 18. Photo by Joni B. Hannigan Nineyearold Adam Brevik and his mother Christine stand outside the hospice where Terri Schiavo is being starved to death. From Port Ritchey, Adam is in a (Image) - 1748.20050319-2.jpg.image
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Wiki PersistentVegetativeState (Wiki) - Symptom/Sign: Persistent vegetative state Classifications and external resources ICD-10 ICD-9 780.03
A persistent vegetative state (PVS) is a condition of patients with severe brain damage in whom coma has progressed to a state of wakefulness without detectable awareness.
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