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José L Fernández-Torre1, Miguel A Hernández-Hernández
1Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, Santander, Cantabria, Spain. jlfernandez@humv.es
Abstract:
We describe the case of a 69-year-old woman admitted to our intensive care unit (ICU) after 20 minutes of resuscitation from acute cardiopulmonary arrest. The patient developed a stimulus-sensitive postanoxic myoclonus in the following hours. The electroencephalogram (EEG) showed diffuse bursts of sharp activity against a completely suppressed background. This case report highlights the importance of carrying out a protocol of multiple and multimodal sensory stimulation when recording an EEG in comatose patients admitted to the ICU.
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