The Use of EEG in the Prognosis of Coma
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Clinical Electroencephalography
- Vol. 14 (1) , 47-52
- https://doi.org/10.1177/155005948301400107
Abstract
Prognosis in comatose patients is essential for medical, ethical, legal and financial reasons. Ambiguous definitions of clinical states and EEG terminology have hampered attempts to use EEG fruitfully for this purpose. Definitions of these terms are offered with a review of their utility in predicting outcome of unconscious patients. An effort is made to expand the scope of prognosis now available which is based mainly on clinical evaluation of brain stem reflexes and demonstration of an isoelectric EEG.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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