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ReviewNeurosurgical review1990

Multimodality evoked potentials and early prognosis in comatose patients.

R Firsching, R A Frowein

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Review in Neurosurgical review, 1990. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Coma After Acute Head Injury.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2017
    Review
  3. Prognosis of brain stem lesion in children with head injury.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2003
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

R FirschingNeurosurgical Department, University Clinic, Cologne, West Germany.
R A Frowein

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 112 comatose patients somatosensory, visual and auditory evoked potentials were registered within 36 hours after the onset of coma or admission. Main causes of coma were head injury, and intracerebral and subarachnoid haemorrhage. The initial bilateral loss of any evoked potential was associated with a mortality of 98%. Normal somatosensory evoked potentials were associated with a survival rate of 74%, while normal visual and normal auditory evoked potentials had a survival rate of 60% and 66%, respectively. It is concluded that SEPs can be valuable for the prognosis of coma after primary brain lesions.

Indexed as

Brain InjuriesComaEvoked PotentialsEvoked Potentials, AuditoryEvoked Potentials, SomatosensoryEvoked Potentials, VisualHumansPrognosis

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PMID2187160
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