Disorders of consciousness and disordered care: families, caregivers, and narratives of necessity

JJ Fins - Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2013 - Elsevier
By their nature, care decisions for patients with severe disorders of consciousness must
involve surrogates. Patients, so impaired, have lost their decision-making capacity and the …

Surrogate expectations in severe brain injury

A Suppes, JJ Fins - Brain Injury, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To understand what influences surrogate decision-makers' expectation that a
patient with a disorder of consciousness (DOC; those in a coma, the vegetative state or the …

[图书][B] Finding consciousness: the neuroscience, ethics, and law of severe brain damage

W Sinnott-Armstrong - 2016 - books.google.com
Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe
brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness. Many such patients …

Ethical and clinical considerations at the intersection of functional neuroimaging and disorders of consciousness: The experts weigh in

AC Byram, G Lee, AM Owen, U Ribary… - Cambridge quarterly of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Recent neuroimaging research on disorders of consciousness provides direct evidence of
covert consciousness otherwise not detected clinically in a subset of severely brain-injured …

[PDF][PDF] Neuroética y trastornos de la conciencia: Lo que los poetas ya sabían.

JJ Fins - El daño cerebral masivo, problema técnico y ético, 2013 - revistaeidon.es
La distinción entre el estado vegetativo y el estado de mínima conciencia fue anticipada por
el Pedro Almodóvar en su película Hable con ella. Las modernas técnicas de neuroimagen …

Disorders of Consciousness Following Severe Brain Injury

B Death - Neuroethics in Practice, 2012 - books.google.com
Physicians and neuroscientists have distinguished among a number of different disorders of
consciousness associated with severe brain injuries (Fins, 2007a). Figure 13.1 illustrates the …