Unstandardized treatment of electroencephalographic status epilepticus does not improve outcome of comatose patients after cardiac arrest

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 5 MAR, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hofmeijer, Jeannette ^a,b   Tjepkema Cloostermans, Marleen C ^a,c   Blans, Michiel J ^b   Beishuizen, Albertus ^c   Van Putten, Michel J A M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anti epileptic drugs; Cardiac arrest; Continuous EEG; Epileptic seizures; Post anoxic coma; Prognosis; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; MIDAZOLAM; PHENYTOIN; PROPOFOL; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMA; COMATOSE PATIENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84897983541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2014.00039     Document Type: Article

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