Investigation of the inter-observer variability effect on the prognostic value of somatosensory evoked potentials of the median nerve (SSEP) in cardiac arrest survivors using an SSEP classification

Resuscitation

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1375-1381

  Pfeifer, Rüdiger ^a   Weitzel, Stephan ^a   Günther, Albrecht ^a   Berrouschot, Jörg ^b   Fischer, Marius ^c   Isenmann, Stefan ^c   Figulla, Hans R ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b Department of Neurology   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Kappa coefficient; Neurological outcome; Post anoxic coma; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NEUROLOGIST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECORDING; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVOR;

CA; CARDIAC ARREST; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CEREBRAL PERFORMANCE CATEGORY-SCALE; CPC; CPR; KAPPA-COEFFICIENT; NEUROLOGICAL OUTCOME; POST ANOXIC COMA; RESTORATION OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; ROSC; SAPS II; SIMPLIFIED ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORE II; SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIALS; SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIALS OF THE MEDIAN NERVE; SSEP;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84884156933     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2013.05.016     Document Type: Article

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