Estado vegetativo persistente. Aspectos clínicos

✍ Scribed by Grau Veciana, J.M.

• Book ID: 123377851
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: Spanish
• Weight: 23 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1578-6749
• DOI: 10.1016/S0210-5691(04)70031-5

✦ Synopsis

THE PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE. CLINICAL FEATURES

The persistent vegetative state is a clinical diagnosis that requires differentiation from other alterations in the level of consciousness (coma, brain death, locked-in syndrome, acinetic mutism, terminal stages of dementia). These patients retain spontaneous vital signs and constants, and the sleep-wake cycle but are incapable of voluntary activity. The vegetative state is defi-ned as persistent when it lasts for more than one month and is designated permanent when criteria of irreversibility have been established.