Evaluating the comatose patient: Rapid neurologic assessment is key to appropriate management

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 38-55

  Malik, Khalid ^c   Hess, David C ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c Medical College of Georgia ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; FENTANYL; FENTANYL CITRATE; FLUMAZENIL; GLUCOSE; MANNITOL; NALOXONE; THIAMINE;

COMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0036177820     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2002.02.1106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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