The incidence of seizures in patients undergoing therapeutic hypothermia after resuscitation from cardiac arrest

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 396-402

  Knight, William A ^a   Hart, Kimberly W ^a   Adeoye, Opeolu M ^a   Bonomo, Jordan B ^a   Keegan, Shaun P ^b   Ficker, David M ^a   Szaflarski, Jerzy P ^a,c   Privitera, Michael D ^a   Lindsell, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Continuous EEG; Non convulsive seizures; Seizures; Therapeutic hypothermia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMATOSE PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; SURVIVAL RATE; VIDEORECORDING;

CARDIAC ARREST; CONTINUOUS EEG; NON-CONVULSIVE SEIZURES; SEIZURES; THERAPEUTIC HYPOTHERMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COMA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEIZURES; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884702431     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2013.06.018     Document Type: Article

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