Several primary neurological disorders and general medical conditions are able to cause coma. Most frequently, patients become comatose after a diagnosis of drug intoxication, hypoxic–ischemic ...

The patient described above, on the other hand, had a negative neurologic examination while in coma, and was the only one with prominent personality changes. The cerebrospinal-fluid pressure was ...

Neurological examination of the limbs usually suggests ... Bilateral extensor plantar reflexes are seen in comatose patients. Focal deficits such as hemiparesis and isolated cranial nerve lesions ...

However, the management of these patients has changed notably with ... and opioids during induced hypothermia confounds neurological examination (even after rewarming, because of delay until ...

12 Neurologic examination to determine whether a patient is brain dead can proceed ... Brain Death in Adults and Children. The depth of coma is assessed by documentation of the presence or absence ...

Researchers discovered a potential correlation between comatose ... of these patients demonstrated consciousness by the time they left the hospital, and 41% of them recovered enough neurological ...

In 1953, at age 29, he became head of neurology at the ... between life and death for the patient” in a coma, the editors of the new edition wrote. The examination, they added, “is much ...

But researchers may have found a new application for the widely used technology: detecting brain activity in comatose ... responsive patient is going get better despite significant neurological ...