“Persistent vegetative state” should not be used as a term for patients because it is offensive and dehumanising, a high court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Hayden issued the plea as he ruled ...
Mutism in older adults is not uncommon. It is often confused with severe depression, locked-in syndrome, and persistent vegetative state, but it is important to distinguish among them as the ...
But being in a persistent vegetative state, still warm and seemingly alive to the untrained onlooker, seemed to me like the ultimate state of limbo. That was a state my patient existed in as I ...