ArticleJournal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry1990
Short latency evoked potentials: new criteria for brain death?
Article in Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 1990. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- [Determination of irreversibility of clinical brain death. Electroencephalography and evoked potentials].Der Nervenarzt · 2016Article
- Benefits of combination of electroencephalography, short latency somatosensory evoked potentials, and transcranial Doppler techniques for confirming brain death.Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B · 2008Article
- A critique of ancillary tests for brain death.Neurocritical care · 2004Review
- N18 in median somatosensory evoked potentials: a new indicator of medullary function useful for the diagnosis of brain death.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 1999Article
- Preserved cortical somatosensory evoked potentials in apnoeic coma with loss of brain-stem reflexes: case report.Journal of neurology · 1993Article
- The differentiation of peripheral effector neuron failure from acute brain stem dysfunction in a critically ill patient.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 1992Article
- New criteria for brain death?Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 1991Article
- Spatial mapping of SEP in comatose patients: improved outcome prediction by combined parietal N20 and frontal N30 analysis.Brain topography · 1991Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the auditory brain stem responses (ABR) and short latency somatosensory potentials (SEP) from median nerve stimulation are effective tools in the confirmation of brain death. Thirty six brain dead patients were submitted to ABR and 24 to SEP in the same session. All waves of the ABR were absent in 28 (77.8 per cent) patients, while only wave I was present in the others (22.2 per cent). In SEP recordings the components later than P13 were absent in 17 (70.8 per cent) of cases; in the remaining seven patients (29.2 per cent) a N13/P13 dissociation (namely, retention of the cervical N13 and absence of the far-field P13) was found. The results suggest that SEP and ABR are reliable tools in the diagnosis of brain death and should be included in the criteria: they enable the functional status of two pathways in the brainstem to be checked, which cannot be explored by the clinical examination.
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