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ArticleTrends in neurosciences2019

Covert Consciousness in the Intensive Care Unit.

Joseph T Giacino, Brian L Edlow

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Article in Trends in neurosciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Joseph T GiacinoSpaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, 300 First Ave, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: jgiacino@mgh.harvard.edu.
Brian L EdlowDepartment of Neurology, Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Massachusetts General Hospital, 175 Cambridge Street - Suite 300, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, 149 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Claassen et al. performed task-based electroencephalography (EEG) in patients with disorders of consciousness in the intensive care unit (ICU) and found that covert consciousness detected by EEG is associated with better long-term outcomes. The diagnostic and prognostic uncertainty raised by these findings lead to pressing ethical questions concerning clinical management.

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Brain InjuriesConsciousnessBrainElectroencephalographyHumansIntensive Care Unitsassessmentcomaconsciousnesselectroencephalographyoutcome

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PMID31514975

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