Prediction of minimally conscious state with somatosensory evoked potentials in long-term unconscious patients after traumatic brain injury

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1024-1030

  Xu, Weiwei ^a   Jiang, Gengsi ^b   Chen, Yanwei ^c   Wang, Xiangyu ^a   Jiang, Xiaodan ^a  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DONGGUAN PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Minimally conscious state; Outcome; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CHRONIC PATIENT; DISEASE DURATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; BRAIN INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PROGNOSIS; SEX FACTORS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862729089     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31824475cc     Document Type: Article

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