Auditory evoked potentials in coma after closed head injury
- 1 August 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 35 (8) , 1122
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.35.8.1122
Abstract
We studied auditory evoked potentials in 45 head-injured patients. All but three were comatose or stuporous at the time of study. Preservation of brainstem auditory or long-latency auditory evoked potentials predicted good outcome. The Glasgow coma scale (GCS), the clinical subtotal of the neurophysiologic coma scale (NPCS), and the NPCS had predictive accuracies of 71%, 82%, and 82%. Although there were 22 falsely pessimistic predictions with the GCS and 9% with the clinical subtotal of the NPCS, there were no falsely pessimistic predictions with the NPCS.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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