Outcome of Severe Brain Injury: A Multimodality Neurophysiologic Study

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 401-406

  Rae Grant, Alexander D ^a,b   Eckert, Nancy ^a   Barbour, Peter J ^a   Castaldo, John E ^a   Gee, William ^a   Wohlberg, Christopher J ^a   Lin, Zwu S ^a   Reed III, James F ^a  

^a LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Coma; Electroencephalography; Evoked potentials; Ocular pneumoplethysmography; Prognosis; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029916649     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199603000-00013     Document Type: Article

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