Persistent Vegetative State

• HealthLink: Coma and Persistent Vegetative State  - Discussion on the nature, prognosis and treatment of the patients who are in a state of unconsciousness.
• New England Journal of Medicine: Medical Aspects of the Persistent Vegetative State  - Article summarizes the medical aspects of the persistent vegetative state in both adults and children.
• NINDS: Coma and Persistent Vegetative State  - Provides information on the background, treatment, prognosis, and researches on the state of the body referred to as brain-death.
• Responding to Patients in the Persistent Vegetative State  - Presents an article about a Christian argument for the removal of food and fluids from patients in a persistent vegetative state.
• WMA: Statement on Persistent Vegetative State  - Shares preamble, definition, recovery, and guidelines from policy adopted in 1989 and rescinded in 2005.