Neuroprognostication of hypoxic-ischaemic coma in the therapeutic hypothermia era

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 190-203

  Greer, David M ^a   Rosenthal, Eric S ^b   Wu, Ona ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PROTEIN S100B;

BISPECTRAL INDEX; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHAEMIC COMA; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MYOCLONIC ASTATIC EPILEPSY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMONITORING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; WARMING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84897987989     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.36     Document Type: Review

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