Deep Brain Stimulation in Persistent Vegetative States: Ethical Issues Governing Decision Making

The aim of the present paper was to investigate the fundamental ethical issues of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) on patients remaining in Persistent Vegetative State (PVS). First, the purpose of this analysis was to discuss the nature of this intervention in order to classify it such as an ordinary cl...

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Autores principales: Patuzzo, Sara, Manganotti, Paolo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4006619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24803730
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/641213
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description The aim of the present paper was to investigate the fundamental ethical issues of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) on patients remaining in Persistent Vegetative State (PVS). First, the purpose of this analysis was to discuss the nature of this intervention in order to classify it such as an ordinary clinical practice, or otherwise as an extraordinary clinical practice or as experimental research. Second, ethical issues, criticisms, and methodological issues of this intervention, also in the future perspectives, are discussed, attempting to identify who could give informed consent for a patient in PVS.
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spelling pubmed-40066192014-05-06 Deep Brain Stimulation in Persistent Vegetative States: Ethical Issues Governing Decision Making Patuzzo, Sara Manganotti, Paolo Behav Neurol Review Article The aim of the present paper was to investigate the fundamental ethical issues of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) on patients remaining in Persistent Vegetative State (PVS). First, the purpose of this analysis was to discuss the nature of this intervention in order to classify it such as an ordinary clinical practice, or otherwise as an extraordinary clinical practice or as experimental research. Second, ethical issues, criticisms, and methodological issues of this intervention, also in the future perspectives, are discussed, attempting to identify who could give informed consent for a patient in PVS. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4006619/ /pubmed/24803730 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/641213 Text en Copyright © 2014 S. Patuzzo and P. Manganotti. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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