Consciousness
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Moral accountability and integrity in nursing practice.

29 Nov 2009 The therapeutic nature of the nurse-patient relationship is grounded in an ethic of caring. Florence Nightingale envisioned nursing as an art and a science...a blending of humanistic, caring presence with evidence-based knowledge and exquisite ... Read more...

Postoperative nonconvulsive encephalopathic status: identification of a syndrome responsible for delayed progressive deterioration of neurological status after skull base surgery. Clinical article.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECT: Over a 10-year period, the authors have observed a rare but recurring syndrome manifested by a delayed, postoperative, progressive decline in the level of consciousness to deep coma that is time-limited to several days with abrupt awakening. ... Read more...

A hemodynamic profile for consciousness during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

30 Oct 2009 We report the quantification of a hemodynamic profile sufficient to support consciousness during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A 62-yr-old man experienced cardiac arrest while being evaluated for heart failure after heart transplantation. During ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Consciousness'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Moral accountability and integrity in nursing practice. 29 Nov 2009
• Postoperative nonconvulsive encephalopathic status: identification of a syndrome responsible for delayed progressive deterioration of neurological status after skull base surgery. Clinical article. 30 Oct 2009
• A hemodynamic profile for consciousness during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 30 Oct 2009
• Isoflurane-induced changes in righting response and breathing are modulated by RGS proteins. 30 Oct 2009
• Lower bispectral index values in children who are intellectually disabled. 30 Oct 2009
• A quantum physics account of consciousness: much less than meets the eye. 30 Oct 2009
• The phase of ongoing EEG oscillations uncovers the fine temporal structure of conscious perception. 12 Oct 2009
• REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness. 29 Sep 2009
• Intentional inhibition: how the "veto-area" exerts control. 30 Aug 2009
• Rethinking the ethics of vital organ donations. 30 Aug 2009
• Lucid dreaming: a state of consciousness with features of both waking and non-lucid dreaming. 30 Aug 2009
• Hippocrates vs. misanthropism. 30 Aug 2009
• Intraoperative awareness during general anesthesia for cesarean delivery. 30 Aug 2009
• Automated responsiveness monitor to titrate propofol sedation. 30 Aug 2009
• Maximizing prediction probability PK as an alternative semiparametric approach to estimate the plasma effect-site equilibration rate constant ke0. 25 Aug 2009
• Animal consciousness: a synthetic approach. 24 Aug 2009
• The SCP is not specific enough to represent conscious content. 22 Aug 2009
• Learning as a possible sign of non-reflective consciousness in persons with a diagnosis of vegetative state and pervasive motor impairment. 18 Aug 2009
• Qualia: the geometry of integrated information. 12 Aug 2009
• Temporal transformations in cinema and psychoanalysis: on Philip Groenig's Into Great Silence. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Consciousness'

Definition: Sense of awareness of self and of the environment.

Descriptor UI: D003243

Alternative terms: Consciousness; Consciousnesses;

Related Mesh Headings: Unconsciousness;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.188.409; F02.830.233;