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- Title
Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: Outcomes from a vicious circle.
- Authors
Erp, Willemijn S.; Lavrijsen, Jan C. M.; Vos, Pieter E.; Laureys, Steven; Koopmans, Raymond T. C. M.
- Abstract
The unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS), also known as the vegetative state (VS), is one of the most dramatic outcomes of acquired brain injury. This medical discipline, called "elderly care medicine" (formerly known as nursing home medicine), is dedicated to patient-centered care for the elderly, but also for young patients with the severest sequelae of neurological diseases.[[25]] Dutch elderly care medicine has a tradition of research whose topics include VS/UWS. Especially when a prolonged period of time, up to 18 days, went by between the moment of ANH withdrawal and the patient passing away, physicians described a "burden of witness,"[50] as experienced by both themselves and the patients' families. That critical decisions about the medical treatment of some of the most helpless patients in modern medicine can be made by dedicated physicians, in close deliberation with those patients' relatives and without judicial, legal, or media interference, can be considered a merit.
- Subjects
PERSISTENT vegetative state; WAKEFULNESS; MEDICAL personnel; TYPE 1 diabetes
- Publication
Annals of Neurology, 2020, Vol 87, Issue 1, p12
- ISSN
0364-5134
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ana.25624