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Professor Derick Wade of the Oxford Centre for Enablement explains the meaning of the words such as coma, vegetative state and locked-in syndrome and answers questions such as 'how can you be sure that someone is not conscious?' and if they can feel pain. He also describes processes for best interests decision-making.
Professor Derick Wade of the Oxford Centre for Enablement
David Menon explains how decisions are taken in intensive care when treating patients in a coma in the early days after their injury. He reflects on problems of uncertainty about outcome at this stage.
David Menon is Professor and Head of the Department of Anaesthesia, Principal Investigator in the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, and Co-Chair of the Acute Brain Injury Programme at the University...
Henry Marsh talks about issues to be considered when thinking about neurosurgery on severely injured patients
Professor Henry Marsh is a consultant neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm: Tales of life, death and brain surgery.
Professor Lynne Turner-Stokes explains the conditions under which a patient can be determined to be in a permanent' vegetative state. She emphasises the need for skilled and repeat assessments.
Lynne Turner-Stokes is a consultant in rehabilitation medicine and Herbert Dunhill Medicine Professor of Rehabilitation, King’s College London. She chaired the Royal College of Physicians working party on prolonged disorders...
