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Normal somatosensory evoked potentials in a child in persistent coma
1Department of Neurology, Creighton University, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha 68131.
Pediatric Neurology
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
Somatosensory evoked potentials have been useful in predicting coma outcome in children. We present a patient who failed to recover consciousness after a near-drowning episode and has remained in a vegetative state. The initial and subsequent somatosensory evoked potentials have been normal, illustrating that normal results do not necessarily portend a favorable outcome.