Focal epileptic seizures, electroencephalography and outcome of sepsis associated encephalopathy—A pilot study

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 148, Issue , 2016, Pages 60-66

  Berisavac, I I ^a,b   Padjen, V V ^a   Ercegovac, M D ^a,b   Beslać Bumbaširević, Lj G ^a,b   Stanarčević, P Dj ^a   Stefanovic Budimkic M S ^a   Radovic M M ^a,b   Jovanovic D R ^a,b  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

EEG; Seizure; Sepsis associated encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; DELTA RHYTHM; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS ASSOCIATED ENCEPHALOPATHY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; THETA RHYTHM; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEIZURES; SEPSIS-ASSOCIATED ENCEPHALOPATHY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SEPSIS-ASSOCIATED ENCEPHALOPATHY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84989836647     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2016.06.013     Document Type: Article

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