医学技术的发展以及重症监护技术的应用,使严重脑损伤患者得以长期幸存于植物状态下的例数不断增加,这些病人难以恢复成为社会中人。尽管用了各种努力,他们仍需数月以至数年生活在医疗机构中,他们不仅给家庭和社会带来了很大的经济负担,而且也给社会提出一系列问题,故有人认为持续的植物状态(以下简称PVS)的出现是重症监护医学的失败。本文试对PVS 做一概述。命名与含义 The development of medical technology and the application of intensive care technology have led to an ever-increasing number of patients with severe brain injury who have survived in the state of plant for a long period of time. These patients have difficulty recovering to become human beings. Despite various efforts, they still need to live in medical institutions for months to years. They not only bring great financial burden to families and society, but also pose a series of problems to the community. Therefore, some people think it will continue The emergence of plant status (hereinafter referred to as PVS) is a failure of intensive care medicine. This article tries to outline PVS. Naming and meaning