Normal somatosensory evoked potentials in a child in persistent coma.
Somatosensory evoked potentials have been useful in predicting coma outcome in children. We present a patient who failed to recover consciousness after a near-drowning episode and has remained in a vegetative state. The initial and subsequent somatosensory evoked potentials have been normal, illustrating that normal results do not necessarily portend a favorable outcome.
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Department of Neurology, Creighton University, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha 68131.
Ellingson
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D002675:Child, Preschool; D003128:Coma / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male