Observations on comatose survivors of cardiopulmonary resuscitation with generalized myoclonus

BMC Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Thömke, Frank ^a   Marx, Jürgen J ^a   Sauer, Oliver ^a   Hundsberger, Thomas ^a   Hägele, Stefan ^a   Wiechelt, Jascha ^a   Weilemann, Sacha L ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CLONAZEPAM; DIAZEPAM; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; PHENYTOIN; PROPOFOL; VALPROIC ACID;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCLONUS; NEOCORTEX; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; RECORDING; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 26444474221     PISSN: 14712377     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-5-14     Document Type: Article

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