What is Vegetative Person? What is the definition of a vegetative person?

Vegetative people can be understood as people who exist like plants, and vegetative people do not have complex thinking skills firstly, and secondly, they are unable to move their limbs and have limited functions. Plants need air, sunlight, water, and soil to survive, and the vegetative brain only has the ability to process some of its basic survival, so patients who have been in a coma for a long time are compared to plants.

The explanation of the vegetative person is as follows:

A vegetative person is a person who has completely lost the ability to recognize himself and the outside world, and can open his eyes, swallow, chew, and even cough, either spontaneously or involuntarily. There is a similar sleep and wake cycle in a normal person, sometimes asleep, sometimes awake, when the eyes are opened, the eyes can be turned, but in fact there is no communication with the outside world. A coma lasting more than 12 months due to trauma, such as brain injury or bruising, is called a vegetative person, and if it is non-traumatic, such as cerebral hemorrhage, poisoning, or infection, etc., and the time is set to more than three months, it is called a vegetative person.

Vegetative pronunciation: zhí wù rén.

Criteria for judging a vegetative person:

The criterion for judging a vegetative person is that the patient has completely lost the ability to recognize himself and his surroundings, completely lost the ability to care for himself, and retains only the essential functions of human existence.

1. Complete loss of cognition of oneself and the surrounding environment: the patient's cerebral cortex function is severely impaired, and the patient is in a deep coma and unable to carry out conscious activities.

2. Complete loss of self-care ability: the patient has his own breathing movements and heartbeat, but cannot control his body movements and cannot carry out normal physical activities.

3. Only the basic functions of human survival are preserved: patients can grow and develop, can metabolize normally, can eat, sleep, and wake up, but the body cannot control its activities.

Refers to a person whose brain has completely or mostly lost its function, that is, has lost consciousness, but is still alive. This type of disease is commonly known as vegetative people. Although vegetative people still have a heartbeat and usually have reflexes (meaning that the brainstem is still alive and functioning), the continuation of a vegetative person's life usually requires the care of others, such as turning over and eating.

When a person is in a vegetative state for more than a month, it is called a persistentvegetative state (PVS), and the longer you are in a vegetative state, the less likely you are to recover. Each year, 14,000 new patients with severe brain injury in the United States remain in a vegetative state one month after the injury.