title: The persistent vegetative state--1990.
authors.affiliation: Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Spudis
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes; D000574:American Medical Association; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology; D001926:Brain Death / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D002940:Circadian Rhythm / Q000502:physiology; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D003128:Coma / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D003679:Deglutition / Q000502:physiology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D006613:Higher Nervous Activity / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000191:economics; D008409:Mastication / Q000502:physiology; D009462:Neurology; D016414:Resuscitation Orders; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014481:United States