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

Author(s) -

Sara Patuzzo,

Paolo Manganotti

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

behavioural neurology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.859

H-Index - 48

eISSN - 1875-8584

pISSN - 0953-4180

DOI - 10.1155/2014/641213

Subject(s) - deep brain stimulation , intervention (counseling) , neuroethics , clinical practice , informed consent , psychology , ethical issues , medicine , engineering ethics , psychotherapist , psychiatry , alternative medicine , nursing , engineering , pathology , disease , parkinson's disease

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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