This article looks at the late John Paul II's allocution on artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH)
and the implications his statement will have on the ordinary-extraordinary care distinction. …

… This is not the case in tube feeding in the vegetative state, unless maintenance of life is
regarded as a side-effect. The third form of futility is where the treatment would be effective but …

… proceed on the presumption that patients in vegetative state cannot, in any humanly important
… On the one hand, the persistence of the vegetative state suggests that efforts to sustain the …

… rate and influencing factors of pneumonia associated with long-term tube feeding in special
care units for patients with persistent vegetative states (PVS) in Taiwan. The findings can be …

… a permanent vegetative state or minimally conscious state. In … Wales is to continue tube
feeding these patients indefinitely … of withdrawal of tube feeding from patients in vegetative and …

… One recent study found 41% of patients meeting the clinical criteria for MCS were
erroneously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.Several studies have employed functional …

… We assume this agreement with continued tube feeding would imply that most family
members in our study would be reluctant to withhold nutrition from these patients. …

… All 51 patientswere fed via tube feeding and 35 patients had urinary catheters (75%). All
patients were … For our study, all patients had to be receivingnutrition via tube feeding. …

… of patients in the persistent vegetative state face several problems. These include deciding
whether tube feeding is treatment or nutritional care, whether withdrawal oftube feeding is an …

… vegetative state were aware of themselves or their environment.8 The diagnosis of the vegetative
state … courts for a directive on withdrawal of tube feeding. Clinicians should therefore be …