Pain-related middle-latency somatosensory evoked potentials in the prognosis of post anoxic coma: a preliminary report.

Abstract

These preliminary data suggest that MLCEPs elicited by painful electrical stimulation seem to be a sensitive method to predict the neurological outcome of patients in the acute phase of coma. Blood pressure response might be a prognostic physiological measure of survival in the vegetative state in patients without N20/P25 SEPs.