Clinical correlates and prognosis in early spindle coma

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 584-590

  Kaplan, Peter W ^a   Genoud, Didier ^b   Ho, Tony W ^a   Jallon, Pierre ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Drugs; EEG; Etiology; Prognosis; Spindle coma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INJURY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE; SURVIVAL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0034177439     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00303-X     Document Type: Article

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