Favorable recovery from bilateral loss of somatosensory evoked potentials

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 182-187

  Schwarz, Stefan ^a   Schwab, Stefan ^a   Aschoff, Alfred ^a   Hacke, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked potentials; Barbiturates; Carbamazepine; Hypothermia; Intoxication; Outcome; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBAMAZEPINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032894763     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199901000-00049     Document Type: Article

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