title: [Value of visual and somatosensory evoked potentials and the electroencephalogram in chronic respiratory insufficiency].
abstract: The visual evoked potentials (VEPs), somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) and the electroencephalogram (EEG) have been studied in 16 subjects presenting chronic respiratory insufficiency (CRI) with normal consciousness. The SEPs latencies were increased but the VEPs latencies were not. The EEG was little disturbed and did not seem to provide useful information in CRI without encephalopathy.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009420:Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011930:Reaction Time; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000503:physiopathology*
vernacular_title: Intérêt des potentiels évoqués visuels et somesthésiques et de l'électroencéphalogramme chez les insuffisants respiratoires chroniques.