Brain-stem auditory evoked potential monitoring. The increase of the stimulus artifact in the development of brain death: A biological phenomenon?

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 95-103

  Litscher, Gerhard ^a   Schwarz, Gerhard ^a   Jobstmann, Roland ^a   Kehl, Günter ^a   Kleinert, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

BAEP monitoring; Brain death; Brain stem auditory evoked potentials; Coma; Dead subjects; Death; Stimulus artifact

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031238429     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00207459708986368     Document Type: Article

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