Given the fact that clinical bedside examinations can have a high rate of misdiagnosis, machine learning techniques based on neuroimaging and electrophysiological measurements are increasingly being considered for comatose patients and patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, a minimally conscious state or locked-in syndrome. Machine learning techniques have the potential to move from g...

Although the general observation that the longer the duration of the vegetative state, the lower the probability of emerging from it remains true, reports of late improvement are ever more common in the literature. The aim of this study was to verify evolution from Vegetative State in a group of inpatients in a Neurorehabilitation facility and to identify the parameters increasing the likelihoo...

Ethical issues in the critical care unit frequently arise in children with neurological problems. These ethical issues frequently challenge our medical management of such cases and can be quite problematic. This article reviews key ethical issues that may arise including informed consent, futility, justice/rationing, clinical research conduct and the severely compromised patient who is in eithe...