Persistent vegetative stateA recent meeting held at the Royal College of Physicians, London in March 1995 provided a timely re-evaluation of many aspects of the persistent vegetative state, a syn- drome which, although affecting relatively few patients, raises immense clinical, ethical, and social dilemmas.Organised by the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College, London on behalf of the EC BIOMED 1 programme, and the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, London it provided an opportunity for a forum of inter- national experts in the field to present data and debate many of these dilemmas in an attempt to reach a consen- sus view.The mere fact that by the end of the two days some 21 different terms had been used for various low
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Kennard et al. (1995) studied this question.