Question: Evidence or history of head trauma, drowning, or other trauma?
Significance: Are there concerns for nonaccidental trauma?
Question: What medications are in the home? Has the p...
Prognosis depends on underlying etiology and patient’s clinical course. It is not advised to prognosticate too early.
Serial exams combined with diagnostic tests (electrophysiolog...
Abend NS, Licht DJ. Predicting outcome in children with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2008;9(1):32–39. [View Abstract on OvidInsights]
Kochanek PM, Ca...
780.01 Coma
781.99 Other symptoms involving nervous and musculoskeletal systems
780.03 Persistent vegetative state
779.2 Cerebral depression, coma, and other abnormal cerebral signs in fetus or...
Q: When a bacterial infection is suspected as a potential etiology of coma, should antibiotic therapy be delayed until CSF has been obtained for testing?
A: Antibiotics should not be delayed if pat...
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