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That's also the feeling in Britain, where courts must decide on a case-by-case basis whether nutrition and hydration can be denied to patients in a PVS. Courts are also involved in resolving disagreements on whether treatment should be withheld from critically ill patients. Last year, Elizabeth Butler...
?WHAT IS A PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE? People who suffer enough brain damage that they are unaware of themselves or their surroundings, but still demonstrate certain reflexes and are able to breathe and pump blood on their own, are in what doctors call a vegetative state. If that condition lasts...
?WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF RECOVERY FROM PVS? The prognosis is better when the condition results from a head injury, which is why in those cases, doctors usually wait at least a year before concluding that the patient is permanently vegetative. When the condition is triggered by a prolonged...
Michael Schiavo’s efforts have led to the removal last Friday of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, the only means by which she receives nourishment. Terri Schiavo’s case had not been hopeless; although she appears to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS...
Another take-home point has been oft-stated and is especially important to those of us in the state of Florida. Here, because of this case, our legislators are considering a bill that would force each Floridian to submit to the administration of artificial nutrition and hydration if he or...