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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 10/2005

01-10-2005 | Correspondence

Are somatosensory evoked potentials the best predictor of outcome after severe brain injury?

Authors: Warwick Butt, Bradley Carter

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 10/2005

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Excerpt

Dear Sir: We thank Dr. Joffe for his comments on our recent systematic review [1]. We have reported that outcome can improve in some children in the years following severe brain injury [2]. In this study 42.5% of survivors improved between 1 and 5 years, with the number of patients having outcomes better than moderate disability increasing from 45% to 53%, although the number in the group with vegetative state actually increased by a single child. Despite these changes the long-term functional outcome and quality of life of children following brain injury was well predicted by SEPs [2, 3]. …
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1.
Carter BG, Butt W (2005) Are somatosensory evoked potentials the best predictor of outcome after severe brain injury? A systematic review. Intensive Care Med 31:765–775CrossRefPubMed
2.
Carter BG, Taylor A, Butt W (1999) Severe brain injury in children: long-term outcome and its prediction using somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs). Intensive Care Med 25:722–728CrossRefPubMed
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Carter BG, Butt W (2005) A prospective study of outcome predictors after severe brain injury in children. Intensive Care Med 31:840–845CrossRefPubMed
Metadata
Title
Are somatosensory evoked potentials the best predictor of outcome after severe brain injury?
Authors
Warwick Butt
Bradley Carter
Publication date
01-10-2005
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 10/2005
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-005-2765-3

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