✓ The authors have analyzed their experience with intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring in
207 patients over a 4-year period. Patients with either high-density or low-density lesions on …

Considerable effort and resources have been devoted to preserving life in patients with
severe closed traumatic brain injury (TBI). We sought to identify temporal trends in mortality …

✓ Although experimental and pathological studies suggest an important role for ischemia in
the majority of fatal cases of traumatic brain injury, ischemia has been a rare finding in most …

✓ An analysis of clinical signs, singly or in combination, multimodality evoked potentials
(MEP's), computerized tomography scans, and intracranial pressure (ICP) data was …

✓ In order to define the role of intracranial and extracranial complications in determining
outcome from severe head injury, 734 patients from the Traumatic Coma Data Bank were …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the patterns of mismatch negativity
(MMN) and N100 component in comatose patients and to evaluate their prognostic value vis …

Consciousness combines information about attributes of the present multimodal sensory
environment with relevant elements of the past. Information from each modality is …

Predictive value of somatosensory evoked potentials for awak... : Critical Care Medicine
Predictive value of somatosensory evoked potentials for awakening from coma* : Critical Care …

This article summarizes a variety of current as well as previous research in support of a new
theory of consciousness. Evidence has been steadily accumulating that information about a …

✓ In certain subgroups of severely head-injured patients, the mortality rate remains
unacceptably high. The authors describe a randomized, controlled trial of prophylactic …