Multimodal evoked potentials after subarachnoid haemorrhage.
In 59 comatose patients after subarachnoid haemorrhage somatosensory, visual, auditory and magnetic motor evoked potentials were registered. Evoked potentials proved to be of much less predictive value than in other causes of coma, such as head injury and others. While loss of cortical function was a safe predictor of a fatal outcome, preservation of evoked potentials has little prognostic relevance.
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Neurochirurgische Klinik, Ruhruniversität Bochum, Germany.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000503:physiopathology*