Ancillary Examination
5 Ancillary xamination Laboratory Findings Leon Sazbon Although some laboratory parameters have prognostic significance in acute head injury, they are of minimal or no value for evaluating the vegetative…
Preliminary Concepts
2 Preliminary Concepts Leon Sazbon and Giuliano Dolce Etiology Vegetative state (VS) is defined behaviorally as the absence of an adequate response to the outside world and absence of any…
Introduction
1 Introduction The progression from unconsciousness and coma to recovered wakefulness – either direct or with a transition through a condition such as the vegetative state – is often characterized…
Intensive-Care Unit for Vegetative State: Management Guidelines
12 Intensive-Care Unit for Vegetative State: Management Guidelines M. Rachele Zylberman This chapter aims to present various modalities, parameters, references, and suggestions which in clinical experience have proved helpful and…
Covert Cognitive Abilities of a Person with Altered Consciousness
11 Covert Cognitive Abilities of a Person with Altered Consciousness Levy Rahmani This chapter outlines a prospective, rehabilitation-oriented investigation at the bedside of possible covert cognitive abilities of a patient…
Ethical Aspects
9 Ethical Aspects Giuliano Dolce and Leon Sazbon Care for patients in the vegetative state involves particular aspects that also affect those professionals dealing with patients who have an “uninhabited…
Minimal Response Syndrome
8 Minimal Response Syndrome Ofer Keren, Jacqueline Resnik What is Minimal Response Syndrome? An increasing number of severely brain-damaged patients survive as a result of improved technology, and face severe…
Treating Families of Patients in Vegetative State: Adjustment and Interaction with Hospital Staff
Anat Shilansky and Rosemarie Weitz Your soul, halfway between this world and the next, Hovering above it, looking into the abyss, Undecided whether to remain here, or to leave it…
Hearing and Balance: The Eighth Cranial Nerve
Chapter 14 Hearing and Balance: The Eighth Cranial Nerve Chapter Outline Auditory and Vestibular Receptor Cells Are Located in the Walls of the Membranous Labyrinth The Membranous Labyrinth Is Suspended…
