by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
Research, recently published in the journal Psychophysiology, sheds new light on the condition known as the completely locked-in state (CLIS), a state where the patient’s total lack of muscle control makes communication virtually impossible. Patients totally paralyzed...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
As campaigners use the “hard cases” of severely disabled people to push for legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia in Britain, Pink and McNeilly urged sufferers not to give up on life. When Kerry Pink, an interior designer, was 35 in 1997 she fell ill with an...
by APFLI | Jan 14, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
COMPUTERIZED BRAIN CONNECTIONS SHOW BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE IN ALS PATIENTS Research, recently published in the journal Psychophysiology, sheds new light on the condition known as the completely locked-in state (CLIS), a state where the patient’s total lack of...
