The compensations of continence are those that come from the assurance that the young man has of his virility, of his worthiness to take the hand of a pure wife in wedlock, and from the consciousness of his ability to establish and maintain a home, and to protect this home against all dangers.
As a Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) was not available for all included patients, level of consciousness on admission was determined from patient files and expressed as a Clinical Presentation Score (CPS): 1) comatose, 2) reduced consciousness, agitation, lack of ability to communicate, 3) drowsy, but able to communicate and 4) awake and alert.
But to link levels of consciousness to language ability is a very slippery slope, especially for schoolteachers being pushed by intrusive testing programs to accept this spurious connection as a way to evaluate and rank their students: I read, write and answer the teacher's questions, therefore I am.
Delirium, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, text revised (DSM-IV-TR), is a disturbance of consciousness with reduced ability to focus, sustain or shift attention, a change in cognition or the development of a perceptual disturbance that occurs over a short period of time and tends to fluctuate over the course of the day [ 1].
Clinicians rated patient level of consciousness, ability to tolerate tracheostomy tube capping, cough effectiveness, and secretions as the most important factors in the decision to decannulate a patient.
The patients' levels of consciousness, ability to tolerate tracheotomy tube capping, cough effectiveness and secretions were rated as the most important factors in the decision to remove a tracheotomy tube from a patient.
Clinicians indicated in our survey that, in determining whether to decannulate a tracheostomized patient, the patient's level of consciousness, ability to tolerate tracheostomy capping, cough effectiveness, secretions, and oxygenation needed to be evaluated.
Clinicians rated level of consciousness, ability to tolerate tracheostomy tube capping, cough effectiveness, and secretions as the four most important determinants in the decision to decannulate a tracheostomized patient.
But you have to keep looking with a high level of consciousness and ability to slow down and join the dots... That's one reason meditation is so important.
Monod ([1970], pp. 198 199) on the other hand, thinks of our consciousness as the ability to simulate in our minds hypothetical actions or events and their consequences — in other words, our ability to imagine.
The epistemic privilege of the oppressed is sometimes cast, following W.E.B. DuBois, in terms of "bifurcated consciousness": the ability to see things both from the perspective of the dominant and from the perspective of the oppressed, and therefore to comparatively evaluate both perspectives (Harding 1991, Smith 1974, Collins 1990).
