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I think that fixes it. Check it for me, please? Some details, abbreviated:

Admission hypokalemia was more frequent in those with closed head injuries... and in those who suffered spinal cord injuries [Terri's bone scan showed both]. ... Hypokalemia occurred more frequently in younger patients... Glasgow Coma Scores (GCS) were significantly lower ... and Injury Severity Scores (ISS) were higher ... with admission hypokalemia. Additionally, hypokalemia was a positive predictor of ISS... Hypokalemic patients more likely needed a ventilator...

Terri Schiavo fit the trauma pattern in every one of the above categories, except I don't know her GCS or ISS scores. It's near certain she fit those too. I omitted the numbers because they are meaningless to a lay reader (medicos are invited to read the abstract posted).

The noose tightens.

The story of yesterday of the supposedly PVS woman who was conscious continues today as one more day of big story. This is an excerpt. Recommend reading the whole story...

CAMBRIDGE, September 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – More and more, ethicists and doctors are questioning the diagnosis of “persistent vegetative state,” and new research is opening the discussion. Researchers working at Cambridge University in England reported in a study published in the journal Science that a woman who was described as being in a “vegetative state” is showing signs of conscious awareness while remaining in the comatose condition.

The study, led by Dr. Adrian Owen at the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at Cambridge, compared neurological responses to verbal stimuli in the comatose patient with those of conscious volunteers. It showed that the patient’s brain responded to commands in the same brain centres and in the same way normally associated with consciousness such as language and planning regions.

“If you put her scans together with the other 12 volunteers tested you cannot tell which is the patient’s,” Owen told The New York Times.

“Vegetative” Patient Shows Conscious Awareness... Confirmed beyond any doubt she was consciously aware of herself and her surroundings

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Terri's Legacy List

(Original Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to September 7.)

Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.