title: [Prognostic significance of myoclonias in aerospace altitude studies and others with acute hypoxia-accompanied status].
abstract: Motor phenomena - mostly in the form of myoclonus in the widest sense - are not rare in aeromedical studies conducted at flight altitudes and involving severe and acute hypoxia. At the same time medium to severe general changes can be observed in the EEG. When oxygen is supplied the motor phenomena stop after a few seconds, and the EEG results become normal again. These reversible changes are contrasted with clinical findings after anoxic coma conditions and hypoxic accidents which occurred during flights and where the myoclonus survives the coma, which is an extremely grave prognostic indication.
mesh_terms: D000532:Altitude Sickness / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000150:complications*; D009207:Myoclonus / Q000209:etiology*; D011379:Prognosis; D013026:Space Flight
vernacular_title: Zur prognostischen Bedeutung von Myoklonien bei luftfahrtmedizinischen Höhenuntersuchungen und anderen mit akuter Hypoxie einhergehenden Zuständen.