Neurologic outcomes and postresuscitation care of patients with myoclonus following cardiac arrest

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 965-972

  Seder, David B ^a   Sunde, Kjetil ^b   Rubertsson, Sten ^c   Mooney, Michael ^b   Stammet, Pascal ^d   Riker, Richard R ^a   Kern, Karl B ^e   Unger, Barbara ^f   Cronberg, Tobias ^g   Dziodzio, John ^a   Nielsen, Niklas ^g,h  

^a MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Centre Hospitalier of Luxembourg   (Luxembourg)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h HELSINGBORG HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

arrest; cardiac; myoclonic; myoclonus; seizure; status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBRAL PERFORMANCE CATEGORY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROMONITORING; PATIENT CARE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE; AGED; COMPLICATION; EUROPE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCLONUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84932100919     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000880     Document Type: Article

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