First author Marleen Tjepkema and senior author Michel van Putten. When patients suffer cardiac arrest, more than half of those who remain comatose never regain consciousness. Early and accurate ...

Comatose survivors of cardiac arrest didn't benefit from intense treatment of seizure-like activity on continuous electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring, the TELSTAR trial showed. Between people ...

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have identified specific EEG (electroencephalogram) signatures that indicate when patients lose and regain consciousness under the general anesthetic ...

Patients in a coma are described as being in a state of unconsciousness from which they cannot be woken and are unresponsive. Typical causes of coma include stroke, seizures, severe head injury, ...

Coma scales have been developed for evaluating depth of consciousness and helping in prediction of outcome. This last issue is best assessed by several other clinical and neurophysiologic tests. For ...