Diffuse Theta Activity and Spindle-Like Bursts during Coma after Cardiac Arrest

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 89-94

  Ganji, Srinivas S ^a,b   Henry, Russell ^c   Furlow, Jennifer ^a  

^a EEG and Evoked Potential Labs   (China)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Internal Medicine Clinic   (China)

Author keywords

Absence Like Discharges; Alpha Pattern Coma; Electroencephalography; Hypoxic Encephalopathy; Somatosensory Evoked Potentials; Spindle Like Bursts; Theta Pattern Coma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM;

AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; COMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; PONS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 0029893830     PISSN: 15500594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155005949602700208     Document Type: Article

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