Vegetative Patients May Have Awareness
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WASHINGTON -- Advanced brain scanning uncovered startling signs of awareness in a woman in a vegetative state, British scientists reported Thursday _ a finding that complicates one of medicine's ethical minefields.
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The common perception that terminally ill people can hang on to life through important religious or personal days is more romance than reality, researchers are reporting.
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Out of death may come a rebirth. The alternative is much more likely to happen. And if it does the consequence will be a living hell that will go on and on and on.
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New medical guidelines allow experienced nurses as well as doctors to decide whether to resuscitate patients.
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The stories seem strange but riveting. A heart attack victim recalls floating in the air, watching paramedics revive him. A surgical patient remembers hovering, watching the doctors operate. Such widely reported out-of-body experiences have long been the territory of theology, philosophy and scary movies. Now scientists have turned their attention to the topic.
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The last thing William Somers remembers before passing out from a massive heart attack was the ambulance ride to the hospital. When he woke up, Somers was astonished to learn doctors at Loyola University Medical
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A new movie brings anesthesia awareness, a rare phenomenon that doctors are still struggling to understand, to life.
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A hospital in the Netherlands â-he first nation to permit euthanasia â - proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns and then made a startling revelation
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NEW YORK  - Patients in a minimally  conscious state (MCS) -- those with severe brain damage who  demonstrate intermittent awareness of their environment -- may  retain some degree of cognitive function, even though they  can't follow simple instructions or communicate, the findings  from a small study suggest.
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The case of Terri Schiavo, which the Florida high court hears Tuesday, will help establish procedures in future cases. By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Conventional wisdom suggests that dying patients will cling to life if a holiday, such as Christmas, a birthday or a cherished anniversary is near.
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A medical accreditation group Tuesday urged hospitals nationwide to take steps to prevent ``anesthesia awareness&#39;&#39;--instances in which patients wake up during surgery and sometimes
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New medical guidelines allow experienced nurses to decide on resuscitating patients.
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A new study challenges the notion that terminally ill patients can somehow hold on until after a holiday such as Christmas, their birthday or another major event in their lives.
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NEW YORK  - Ironically, people who help  patients with breathing problems have a high likelihood of  developing respiratory disorders themselves.
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David Thibault grows orchids as a hobby, but the elegant flower on his bedside tray did little to lift his spirits. He stared out the window of his room at George Washington University Hospital, waiting for lab results that could tell him if he had months, weeks or maybe only days to live. A mon...
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Imagine you&#39;re lying unconscious on the operating table and before the surgery is over, you wake up. But the doctors and nurses can&#39;t tell you&#39;re awake because you still can&#39;t speak or move a muscle.