by APFLI | May 11, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Researchers are gaining insights into why some minimally conscious patients with a severe brain injury appear to “awaken” after taking the sleep medication zolpidem (Ambien, Sanofi-Aventis). The answer may lie in a pool of recruitable and functional brain...
by APFLI | Aug 28, 2011 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Waking the Dead – One Day, 'Deep Coma' Victims Will be Able to Talk and Move Around Patients thought to be in a "persistent vegetative" state after suffering devastating brain damage could soon be able to "talk" and even steer a...