THE CONCEPTS OF VEGETATIVE STATE (VS) AND MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE (MCS): CONCEPT DEFINITION, SITUATION EVALUATION, INDEMNIFICATION, LIFE PROJECTS

Abstract

Progress in neuroimaging and electrophysiology allow a
better evaluation of these conditions but the diagnosis is
always clinical.
Today in France the public health response to the need to
better manage patients in VS or MCS is being structured.
Once a diagnosis of VS or MCS is made the patients are
then transferred to a long-term unit (called “proximity”
units) or to home