title: Position statement: certain aspects of the care and management of profoundly and irreversibly paralyzed patients with retained consciousness and cognition. Report of the Ethics and Humanities Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology; D030881:Disclosure; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008020:Life Support Care; D010243:Paralysis / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D012133:Respiratory Paralysis / Q000150:complications; D012297:Right to Die; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D028761:Withholding Treatment