{"id":1444,"date":"2005-03-29T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T23:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/29\/pvs-the-swallowing-myth\/"},"modified":"2005-03-29T15:15:23","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T23:15:23","slug":"pvs-the-swallowing-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1444","title":{"rendered":"PVS &amp; The Swallowing Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43486\">WorldNetDaily<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the definitions of someone who is PVS is that they cannot swallow. A &#8220;liquified cortex&#8221; would prevent someone from being able to swallow the saliva that they produce. Doctors will testify that the average human can produce up to two liters of saliva a day.<\/p>\n<p>You know how it is at homes for disabled children and adults. Many of them regularly have large amounts of saliva dripping all down the front of their shirts.  [&#8230;] But with Terri &#8230; it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s missing. It&#8217;s just not there.<\/p>\n<p>Her chin, lips, corners of her mouth, neck and face are never slimy. How is this possible? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From &#8220;Persistant Vegitative State&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioethics.ac.uk\/publications\/vegetative-state.pdf\">pdf link<\/a>), a paper by Dr Andrew Fergusson, Head of Policy, Centre for Bioethics and Public Policy, UK:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clinical features [of PVS]:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spontaneous respiration and heartbeat<\/li>\n<li>No life support machinery<\/li>\n<li>Body functions normally<\/li>\n<li>Sleep\/wake cycles<\/li>\n<li><strong>Swallowing, but not safely or sufficiently (hence tube feeding)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>No intellectual activity<\/li>\n<li>No rational responses<\/li>\n<li>No sentience<\/li>\n<li>No cognitive function<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reflex swallowing of saliva comes from the brainstem, not the cortex. Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawneden.com\/2005\/03\/whats-missing-from-terri-videos.html\">Dawn Patrol<\/a>, who was, alas, fooled by the WorldNetDaily&#8217;s false claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WorldNetDaily: One of the definitions of someone who is PVS is that they cannot swallow. A &#8220;liquified cortex&#8221; would prevent someone from being able to swallow the saliva that they produce. Doctors will testify that the average human can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1444\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terri-schiavo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}