Sdisorders Of Consciousness

Question 1

What are features of a patient in a coma?

Answer 1

Unrousable, unresponsive, for over 6 hours, cannot be woken, no voluntary actions

Question 2

What are features of patients in a vegetative state?

Answer 2

Severely altered consciousness, minimal evidence of self and environmental awareness, wake and sleep, inconstitent but reproducible responses to surroundings

Question 3

When would a vegetative state be considered permanent?

Answer 3

Over a year following TBI or 6 months in other mechanisms