Persistent vegetative state: Clinical and ethical issues

Theoretical Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 221-236

  Celesia, Gastone G ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AKINETIC MUTISM; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; COMA; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; REVIEW;

AMERICAN NEUROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; MULTI-SOCIETY TASK FORCE ON PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AKINETIC MUTISM; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; COMA; CONSENSUS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PROGNOSIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINOLOGY; TREATMENT REFUSAL; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0030879252     PISSN: 01679902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005709410296     Document Type: Review

References (58)

1. Plum F, Posner JB. The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma. Philadelphia: FA Davis Company, 1980: 5-6.
2. Cranford RE. The persistent vegetative state: The medical reality (getting the facts straight). Hastings Cent Rep 1988; 18: 27-32.
3. Practice parameters: assessment and management of patients in the persistent vegetative state (summary statement). The Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology [see commentsJ. Neurology 1995; 45: 1015-1018.
4. Recommendations for use of uniform nomenclature pertinent to patients with severe alterations in consciousness. American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation 1995; 76: 205-209.
5. ANA Committee on Ethical Affairs. Persistent Vegetative State: report of the American Neurological Association Committee on Ethical Affairs. Ann Neural 1993; 33: 386-390.
6. The Multi-Society Task Force on PVS, Medical aspects of the persistent vegetative state. NEnglJMed 1994; 330: 1572-1579.
7. Pères J. Cop's coma miracle revives a debate over patient care. Chicago Tribune. Section 2, Feb 23; 1996.
8. Anonymous. To him, it was still 1988: the "coma cop" awakens. Newsweek 56 Feb 26; 1996.
9. Bacon F. Novum Organum, Aphorisms XLIII. Londini, Apud Joannem Billium, Typographum Regium c. 1620.
10. Childs NL, Mercer WN, Childs HV. Accuracy of diagnosis of persistent vegetative state. Neurology 1993; 43: 1465-1467.
11. Jennett B, and Plum F. Persistent vegetative state after brain damage: a syndrome in search of a name. Lancet 1972; 1: 734-737.
12. Weir RF, Gostin L. Decision to abate life-sustaining treatment for nonautonomous patients. JAMA 1990; 264: 1846-1853.
13. Brody BA. Ethical questions raised by the persistent vegetative patient. Hasting Cent Rep 1988; 18: 33-37.
14. Papastrat LA. Guidelines for Reserving Traumatic Brain Injury. Princeton NJ: American Re-Insurance Company, 1990.
15. Katayama Y, Tsubokawa T, Yamamoto T et al. Characterization and modification of brain activity with deep brain stimulation in patients in a persistent vegetative state: pain-related late positive component of cerebral evoked potential. PACE Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 1991; 14: 116-121.
16. Wood RL. Critical analysis of the concept of sensory stimulation for patients in vegetative states. Brain Inj 1991; 5: 401-409.
17. Wood RL, Witowski TB, Miller JL. et al. Evaluating sensory regulation as a method to improve awareness in patients with altered states of consciousness: a pilot study. βram/n/1992;6:411-418.
18. Caiman KC. The ethics of allocation of scarce health care resources: a view from the center. J Med Ethics 1994; 20: 71-74.
19. American Medical Association Council on Scientific Affairs. Persistent vegetative state and the decision to withdraw or withhold life support. JAMA 1990; 263:426-430.
20. Alpert JS. Persistent vegetative state: where do we go from here? Arch Int Med 1991; 151: 855-856.
21. Berrol S. Persistent vegetative state. Phys Med Rehab 1990; 4: 559-567.
22. Spudis EW. The persistent vegetative state. J Neural Sei 1990; 102: 128-136.
23. Institute of Medical Ethics Working Party on the Ethics of Prolonging Life and Assisting Death. Withdrawal of life support from patients in a persistent vegetative state. Lancet 1991; 337: 96-98.
24. Haggish K, Haitian M, Abaca S, et al. Five-year follow-up of patients with persistent vegetative state. J Neural Neurosurg Psychiatr 1981; 44: 552-554.
25. Withdrawal of life support from patients in a persistent vegetative state. Institute of Medical Ethic Working Party on Ethics of Prolonged Life and Assisting Death. Lancet 1991; 337: 96-98.
26. Munsat TL, Stuart WH, Cranford RE. Guidelines of the vegetative state: Commentary on the American Academy of Neurology Statement. Neurology 1989; 39: 123-12.
27. Brown J. The persistent vegetative state: Time for caution? Postgraduate MedJ 1990; 66: 697-698.
28. Wilder D. Not dead, not dying? Ethical categories and persistent vegetative state. Hastings Cent Rep 1988; 18: 41-47.
29. Brody B A. Ethical questions raised by the persistent vegetative patient. Hastings Cent Rep 1988; 18: 33-37.
30. Council on Scientific Affairs and Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. Persistent vegetative state and the decision to withdraw or withhold life support. Council report. JAMA 1990; 263: 426-430.
31. Pius XII Address to an international group of physicians February 24, 1997, III: AAS 49: 1-147.
32. Keenan JF, Sheenan M. Life supports, Sorting bishops' views Church 1992: 10-17.
33. Newman LE. Jewish theology and bioethics. J Med Philos 1992; 17: 309-327.
34. Rosner F, Bleich JD. Eds. Jewish Bioethics. New York: Sanherin Press 1979.
35. Thomasma DC. Foreword. In: EH Loewy (ed) Suffering and the beneficent community. Beyond Libertarianism. Albany: State University of New York Press 1991.
36. Levy DE, Caronna JJ, Singer BH, Lapinski RH, Frydman H, Plum F. Predicting outcome from hypoxic-ischemic coma. JAMA 1985; 253: 1420-1426.
37. Levy DE, Bates D, Coronna JJ et al. Prognosis in nontraumatic coma. Ann Intern Med 1981; 94: 293-301.
38. Hamel MB, Goldman L, Teno J et al. Identification of comatose patients at high risk for death or severe disability. JAMA 1995; 273: 1842-1848.
39. Barnet JL. Ethical Issues in Neurology. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann 1994.
40. Braakman R, Jenett WB, Minderhound JM. Prognosis of the posttraumatic vegetative state. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 1988; 95: 49-52.
41. Sazbon L, Fuchs C, Costeff H. Prognosis for recovery from prolonged posttraumatic unawareness: logistic analysis. J Neural Neurosurg Psychiatry 1991; 54: 149-152.
42. Sazbon L, Groswasser Z. Medical complications and mortality of patients in the postcomatose unawareness (PC-U) state. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 1991; 112: HO112.
43. The Medical Task Force on Anencephaly: the infant with anencephaly. W Engl J Med 1990; 322: 669-676.
44. Ashwal S. The persistent vegetative state in children. Advances in Pediatrics 1994; 41: 195-222.
45. Shewmon DA, Holmes GL. Braistem plasticity in congenitally decerebrate children. Brain Dev 1990; 12:664.
46. Groswasser Z. Sazbon L. Outcome in 134 patients with prolonged posttraumatic unawareness. Part 2. Functional outcome of 72 patients recovering consciousness. J Neurosurg 1990; 72: 81-84.
47. In re Quintan, 70 NJ 10, 355 A2d 647, cert denied sub nom. Garger v New Jersey, 429 US 922 (1976).
48. Supreme Court of New Jersey In the Matter of Karen Quinlan, vol 2. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1977.
49. Cruzan v Director, Missouri Dept. of Health. 110 S Ct 2841, 1990.
50. Perkins HS, Bauer RL, Hazuda HP, et al. Impact of legal liability, family wishes, and other "external factors" on physicians' life-support decisions. Am J Med 1990; 89: 185-194.
51. La Puma J. Stocking CB. Silverstein MD. et al. An ethics consultation service in a teaching hospital. Utilization and evaluation. JAMA 1988; 260: 808-811.
52. Graham DI, McLellan D, Adams JH, et al. The neuropathology of the vegetative state and severe disability after non-missile head injury. Acta Neuroch 1983; 32: 65-67.
53. Arseni C, Nereantiu F, Carp N. Persistent vegetative state after trauma. A clinicopathologic study. Acta Neuroch 1981; 59: 45-53.
54. McQuillen MP. Can people who are unconscious or in the "vegetative state" perceive paint Issues in Law and Medicine 1991; 6: 373-383.
55. DaroffRB. The American Neurological Association survey results on PVS. Presented at the 115th annual meeting of the American Neurological Association, Atlanta, October 14-17, 1990.
56. Tommasino C. Grana C. Lucignani G. Torn G. Fazio F. Regional cerebral metabolism of glucose in comatose and vegetative state patients. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol. 1995; 7: 109-116.
57. Levy DE, Sidtis JJ Rosenberg DA et al. Differences in cerebral blood flow and glucose utilization in vegetative versus lock-in patients. Ann Neural. 1987; 22: 673-682.
58. Celesia GG. Persistent vegetative state. Neurology 1993; 43: 1457-1458.