Sentence examples for conscious patient from inspiring English sources

A research team from New York, New Jersey and New Zealand spent more than a year analyzing the results, comparing them to images from healthy brains and from another minimally conscious patient who had not recovered.

Artificial fluid and food via drips or a naso-gastric tube may be appropriately stopped, but we need to challenge the impression that end-of-life care in any way involves stopping a conscious patient from eating or drinking.

I have infinite respect for the persistence of climate scientists, their present job must be like performing crucial surgery on a conscious patient who's trying to simultaneously spit in your face and kick you in the groin.

The dentist places an unconscious patient in a supine position and comfortably positions a conscious patient.

Remarkably, when tested on this same procedure, a minimally conscious patient presented a highly similar pattern of activation.

This brain region is thought to help mediate arousal and is the region surgeons targeted in the minimally conscious patient.

The conscious patients watch me warily as if I am some sort of wraith.

Few vegetative or minimally conscious patients ever recover fully, and many are unlikely to improve.

Here are his responses: Mo Costandi: This new study implies that minimally conscious patients may be capable of dreaming.

Just because minimally conscious patients show the same patterns of brain activity that are seen when healthy people dream does not necessarily mean that the patients are dreaming.

To answer that kind of question in a systematic way, researchers will need to follow more minimally conscious patients for longer periods, experts say.