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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on July 1, 1989. The length of the article is 1826 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Recovery from persistent vegetative state?: the case of Carrie Coons.
Author: Bonnie Steinbock
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1989
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v19Issue: n4Page: p14(2)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, published by American Association of Neuroscience Nurses on June 1, 1996. The length of the article is 3503 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Persistent vegetative state provokes powerful emotional responses in caregivers and family members. Patients in this state may have periods of wakefulness but are unaware of their environment, so neurological nurses often must consult with family to make difficult decisions about life sustaining treatments. Nurses should also make clear the importance of informing family about advance care directives.

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Title: Persistent vegetative state: important considerations for the neuroscience nurse.
Author: Judy Ozuna
Publication: Journal of Neuroscience Nursing (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1996
Publisher: American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
Volume: v28Issue: n3Page: p199(5)

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This digital document is an article from Issues in Law & Medicine, published by National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. on June 22, 1992. The length of the article is 1074 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ragona v. Preate. (intent of persistent vegetative state patent to refuse life-sustaining treatment) (Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania)
Author: Daniel B. Griffith
Publication: Issues in Law & Medicine (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1992
Publisher: National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
Volume: 8Issue: n1Page: 109-111

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I found this on Amazon quite by accident, doing the family name search thing; Joseph and Ruth Ragona were my parents (I'm the youngest of their four children).While the article is informative it also doesn't begin to cover the magnitude of pain, frustration and grief my family went through; the irony of it all is just days after the court issued the order to allow my mother's feeding tube to be removed, she died of an infection resulting from bed sores--Christmas Day, no less, a week from when the tube was to be removed.

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on February 1, 1988. The length of the article is 6003 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Not dead, not dying? Ethical categories and persistent vegetative state.
Author: Daniel Wikler
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 1988
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v18Issue: n1Page: p41(7)

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on February 1, 1988. The length of the article is 4861 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The persistent vegetative state: the medical reality (getting the facts straight).
Author: Ronald E. Cranford
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 1988
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v18Issue: n1Page: p27(6)

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This digital document is an article from Nursing Law's Regan Report, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 937 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Was this 'irreversible coma' really irreversible?(persistent vegetative state petition)
Author: A. David Tammelleo
Publication: Nursing Law's Regan Report (Newsletter)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 46Issue: 8Page: 1(2)

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on February 1, 1988. The length of the article is 746 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The persistent problem of PVS. (persistent vegetative state)
Author: Susan M. Wolf
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 1988
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v18Issue: n1Page: p26(1)

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on February 1, 1988. The length of the article is 3027 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: From Quinlan to Jobes: the courts and the PVS patient. (Karen Ann Quinlan, Nancy Ellen Jobes, persistent vegetative state)
Author: Paul W. Armstrong
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 1988
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v18Issue: n1Page: p37(4)

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This digital document is an article from Issues in Law & Medicine, published by National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. on March 22, 1992. The length of the article is 2397 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: In re Sue Ann Lawrance. (never-competent patient now in a persistent vegetative state) (Indiana)
Author: Daniel B. Griffith
Publication: Issues in Law & Medicine (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1992
Publisher: National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
Volume: 7Issue: n4Page: 513-518

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on May 1, 1990. The length of the article is 887 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Exile and PVS. (persistent vegetative state)
Author: Lawrence J. Schneiderman
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1990
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v20Issue: n3Page: p5(1)

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This digital document is an article from Issues in Law & Medicine, published by National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. on September 22, 1991. The length of the article is 5984 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The case of Mr. Stevens. (persistent vegetative state) (Symposium: Current Controversies in the Right to Live, the Right to Die)
Author: Ronald E. Cranford
Publication: Issues in Law & Medicine (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1991
Publisher: National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
Volume: 7Issue: n2Page: 199-211

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This Special Issue of the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation aims to focus attention on key issues, to heighten awareness and stimulate interest in research on treatment of coma and persistent vegetative state. The first two papers are written by Professor Brian Jennett and Dr. Keith Andrews who present opinion on ethical issues and treatment in patients in persistent vegetative state. These papers are followed by a review of scales for measuring behavior in coma by the Southampton group together with the results of a pilot study on a new scale. There follows a paper on the clinical assessment of coma by Dr. E.A. Freeman and then a review of previously published studies on sensory stimulation as a treatment of coma by the editors. Finally, there are four research papers. These are on learning during coma by Dr. Barbara Wilson and the Southampton group; sensory regulation and recovery in coma by Dr. Rodger Wood and the Los Angeles group; evaluation of sensory stimulation using single case methodology in prolonged coma patients by workers at the Royal Home and Hospital, Putney; and on the effect of intense multi?sensory stimulation on coma arousal and recovery by the Philadelphia group. ... Read more

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The strange and harrowing sight of a person being awake but unaware with no evidence of a working mind - the characteristics of the vegetative state - provokes intense debate and raises profound questions for health professionals, ethicists, philosophers and lawyers. This unique account by an unrivalled expert in the field, who himself collaborated in coining the term 'persistent vegetative state', surveys the medical, ethical and legal issues that surround this controversial topic. The medical definition and criteria for diagnosis are discussed, as are its frequency and causes, and possible outcomes. Ethical arguments discussed include the conflict between sanctity of life and respect for the autonomy and best interests of the victim, and between killing and letting die. Legal issues are explored with details of landmark court cases from the USA, Britain and elsewhere. This well-informed and carefully constructed account will be a benchmark for medical specialists, ethicists, lawyers and philosophers. ... Read more

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Institute S. Anna for Intensive Care and Rehabilitation, Crotone, Italy. Text provides information on the diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients with this condition. Features information on running and operating a facility and an analysis on ethical and legal considerations. Errata included for errors on three pages. DNLM: Persistent Vegetative State. ... Read more

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During the past few decades, high-profile cases like that of Terry Schiavo have fueled the public debate over forgoing or withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration from patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). These cases, whether involving adults or young children, have forced many to begin thinking in a measured and careful way about the moral legitimacy of allowing patients to die. Can families forgo or withdraw artificial hydration and nutrition from their loved ones when no hope of recovery seems possible? Many Catholics know that Catholic moral theology has formulated a well-developed and well-reasoned position on this and other end-of-life issues, one that distinguishes between "ordinary" and "extraordinary" treatment. But recent events have caused uncertainty and confusion and even acrimony among the faithful. In his 2004 allocution, Pope John Paul II proposed that artificial nutrition and hydration is a form of basic care, thus suggesting that the provision of such care to patients neurologically incapable of feeding themselves should be considered a moral obligation.The pope's address, which seemed to have offered a new development to decades of Catholic health care ethics, sparked a contentious debate among the faithful over how best to treat permanently unconscious patients within the tenets of Catholic morality. In this comprehensive and balanced volume, Ronald Hamel and James Walter present twenty-one essays and articles, contributed by physicians, clergy, theologians, and ethicists, to reflect the spectrum of perspectives on the issues that define the Catholic debate. Organized into six parts, each with its own introduction, the essays offer clinical information on PVS and feeding tubes; discussions on the Catholic moral tradition and how it might be changing; ecclesiastical and pastoral statements on forgoing or withdrawing nutrition and hydration; theological and ethical analyses on the issue; commentary on Pope John Paul II's 2004 allocution; and the theological commentary, court decisions, and public policy resulting from the Clarence Herbert and Claire Conroy legal cases.A valuable resource for students and scholars, this teachable volume invites theological dialogue and ethical discussion on one of the most contested issues in the church today. ... Read more