Część monograficzna: Poprawa jakości życia dzieci i młodzieży w stanie śpiączki – oddziaływania psychopedagogiczne
Monograph: Improving the quality of life of comatose children and youth – psychopedagogical actions

Summary/Abstract: Technical potential of the modern medicine make it possible to save lives of many patients after brain injury due to some accident, sudden arrest of blood circulation, cerebral stroke, or other causes. Nevertheless, a certain number of survivors stay in the state of limbo “between life and death”, i.e. in a vegetative state. Such a patient is in a state of partial arousal, but, as it is believed, he/she is not in true awareness. The diagnosis of a vegetative state (VS) is given by a doctor and since that moment the patient is not expected to show a noticeable improvement in his/her health. If such a state lasts up till a year, the diagnosis is classified as a persistent vegetative state; if it lasts longer, the diagnosis is a permanent vegetative state (PVS). Working with a patient in coma is extremely difficult and laborious. The purpose of the following discussion is to review the range of psychopedagogical actions available for the children and youth staying in the Medical Care Centre in Toruń and see how the actions improve their quality of life. The article analyses a number of actions undertaken by a team of pedagogists and psychologists targeting a group of children and youth in a vegetative state. The objectives of the actions are also discussed together with the improvements observed in the sphere of quality of life of those patients.

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