Unexpected good recovery in a comatose post-cardiac arrest patient with poor prognostic features

Resuscitation

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Greer, David M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CASE REPORT; COMATOSE PATIENT; CONVALESCENCE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LETTER; MYOCLONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; WARMING;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84879890899     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2013.02.011     Document Type: Letter

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