Ethics in communication with patients in the state of disorders of consciousness. Natural situation and the use of modern technologies

Communication is a very important part of the human activity on very many levels. Communication with the patient has become an important part of the personalized health care and it plays an important role in the diagnosis, and also at each stage of treatment and rehabilitation. Not always, however, you can realize a natural communication situation due to dysfunctions, disorders and injuries. In particular, it is difficult for the unresponsive patients such as patients with disorders of consciousness. At this work have compared the communication in the natural situations (communication as the sharing) with the communication in the unnatural situation, for unresponsive patients (communication extended), indicating is also the ethical context of communication with patients.