The Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States: Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment

Neurologic Clinics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 773-786

  Hirschberg, Ron ^a,b,c   Giacino, Joseph T ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Neuroimaging; Outcomes; Traumatic brain injury; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; PLACEBO; SEDATIVE AGENT; ZOLPIDEM;

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LUNG INFECTION; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; NEUROIMAGING; OXYGEN THERAPY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; SKIN ABRASION; TENDON CONTRACTURE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE;

EID: 80055110802     PISSN: 07338619     EISSN: 15579875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ncl.2011.07.009     Document Type: Review

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