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.
Department of Neurology, Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia.
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Reutens
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Dunne
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Gubbay
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000503:physiopathology*