Prognostic Use of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials in Acute Consciousness Impairment
Predicting the fate of ICU patients who are in coma is extremely challenging. In this context, somatosensory evoked potential (SSEP) can assist the multimodal neurological evaluation. In this chapter, we discuss the principles, applications and limitation
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Clinical Neurophysiology in Disorders of Consciousness
Andrea O. Rossetti • Steven Laureys Editors
Clinical Neurophysiology in Disorders of Consciousness Brain Function Monitoring in the ICU and Beyond
Editors Andrea O. Rossetti Service de Neurologie CHUV BH-07 Lausanne Switzerland
Steven Laureys Cyclotron Research Centre Coma Science Group University of Liège Liège Belgium
ISBN 978-3-7091-1633-3 ISBN 978-3-7091-1634-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-1634-0 Springer Vienna Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Preface
The seeker after truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration […]Thus, the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is […] applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency.
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