medicine,law2012

Neurocritical care focuses on critically ill patients with primary or secondary neurological problems. Initially neurocritical care was dev...

Delirium is a disturbance of consciousness characterized by acute onset and fluctuating course of inattention accompanied by either a chang...

Each neurocritical care unit should adopt a special scoring and documentation system, to be used to assess and document baseline patient ne...

After exclusion of the previous syndromes, and in the absence of brain stem reflexes, brain death in deeply comatose patients should be est...

Locked-in syndrome usually results in quadriparesis and the inability to speak in otherwise cognitively intact individuals. Patients with l...

Diagnosis The vegetative state is diagnosed, according to its definition, as being persistent at least for one month. Based upon class II e...

Permanent vegetative state (PVS) means an irreversible state of wakefulness without awareness, associated with sleep-wake cycles and preser...