Predict recovery of consciousness in post-acute severe brain injury: The role of EEG reactivity

Brain Injury

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 972-979

  Logi, Fiammetta ^a   Pasqualetti, Patrizio ^b   Tomaiuolo, Francesco ^a  

^a Severe Acquired Brain Injury Unit   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coma; prognosis; vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC REACTIVITY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; LEVEL OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULUS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 79961190116     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2011.589795     Document Type: Article

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