Triphasic waves in accidental hypothermia.
Triphasic waves occur in a variety of metabolic, toxic and diffuse encephalopathies. We describe an elderly patient in whom triphasic waves accompanied moderately severe accidental hypothermia and disappeared on rewarming.
Reutens
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Department of Neurology, Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia.
Dunne
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Gubbay
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000503:physiopathology*