An approach to critically ill patients in coma

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 184-187

  Liao, Y Joyce ^a   So, Yuen T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN STEM; COMA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EYE MOVEMENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; PROGNOSIS; PUPIL REFLEX; REVIEW; SEIZURE; STROKE; STUPOR; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

COMA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0036581381     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ewjm.176.3.184     Document Type: Review

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