How reliable is the predictive value of SEP (somatosensory evoked potentials) patterns in severe brain damage with special regard to the bilateral loss of cortical responses?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 301-308

  Pohlmann Eden, B ^a   Dingethal, K ^a   Bender, H J ^a   Koelfen, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain death; Coma; Prognosis; Severe brain damage; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURORADIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0030993578     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340050332     Document Type: Article

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