The Occurrence of Acute Postoperative Confusion in Patients after Cardiac Surgery by Jürgen Osterbrink, John P. McDonough, Andre Ewers, Herbert Mayer

“…A total of 867 patients, 22–91 years old, were examined each nursing shift postoperatively for 5 days for the presence of acute confusion using a modified version of the Glasgow Coma Scale and Confusion Rating Scale. The night shifts and the third postoperative day showed the most frequent periods of occurrence. …”
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Optimizing Neurobehavioral Assessment for Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: Proposal of a Comprehensive Pre-Assessment Checklist for Clinicians by Kristen Keech, Caroline Schnakers, Brooke Murtaugh, Katherine O’Brien, Beth Slomine, Marie-Michèle Briand, Rita Formisano, Aurore Thibaut, Anna Estraneo, Enrique Noé, Olivia Gosseries, Liliana da Conceição Teixeira

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Apallic syndrome of toxic origin: the diagnostic criteria by N.V. Kurdil, A.O. Volosovets, O.V. Ivashchenko, V.S. Lisovska, H.M. Balan, O.M. Rozhkova, V.V. Andriushchenko

“…The global epidemic of strong synthetic opioids and “new” psychoactive substances has increased the number of overdoses that cause prolonged coma with subsequent persistent vegetative state or apallic syndrome. …”
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Influence of High-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Neurobehavioral and Electrophysiology in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness by Jian-Min Chen, Qing-Fa Chen, Zhi-Yong Wang, Yang-Jia Chen, Nan-Nan Zhang, Jian-Wen Xu, Jun Ni

“…The outcome measures of performed pre- and postintervention included the latencies of the N20 and N20-P25 amplitudes of SEP, brainstem auditory-evoked potential (BAEP) grade, JFK Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) score, and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score; any adverse events were recorded at any time during the intervention. …”
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Statistical Analysis of the Sensitivity of CRS-R Scale Projects in Consciousness Evaluation by Yonghong ZHANG, Xiaolin ZENG, Wei SHEN, Zhencheng CHEN, Linghui HE, Xinfei ZHANG

“…Objective:To observe the differences in the importance of the items in the conscious state assessment of the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R).Methods:A total of 480 patients with disturbance of consciousness were assessed by Chinese version of CRS-R. …”
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Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Metastatic Medullary Thyroid Cancer by Emmanuel C. Gorospe, Jemilat Badamas

“…His clinical course was marked by rapid decompensation within 6 days from initial presentation of jaundice to development of hepatic coma. Although liver metastases from medullary thyroid cancer have been reported, to our knowledge, this is the first described case of MTC resulting in acute liver failure.…”
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Treatment of Shiga-Toxin Hus with Severe Neurologic Features with Eculizumab by Jacob H. Umscheid, Collin Nevil, Rhythm Vasudeva, Mohammed Farhan Ali, Nisha Agasthya

“…Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli- (STEC-) mediated HUS is a common cause of acute renal failure in children and can rarely result in severe neurological complications such as encephalopathy, seizures, cerebrovascular accidents, and coma. Current literature supports use of eculizumab, a monoclonal antibody that blocks complement activation, in atypical HUS (aHUS). …”
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Artery of Percheron in the Differential Diagnosis of Acute Altered Mental Status by Maria Isabel Pérez Pañart, Beatriz Sierra Bergua

“…Besides, it is important for emergency physicians to enclose the Percheron syndrome in the differential diagnosis of coma in young people so that emergent treatments such as thrombolysis can be employed.…”
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Avian Influenza a (H5N1) Infection with Respiratory Failure and Meningoencephalitis in a Canadian Traveller by Naheed Rajabali, Thomas Lim, Colleen Sokolowski, Jason D Prevost, Edward Z Lee

“…After several days, this was followed by headache, confusion and, ultimately, respiratory failure, coma and death. Microbiology yielded influenza A subtype H5N1 from various body sites and neuroimaging was consistent with meningoencephalitis. …”
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Massive Levemir (Long-Acting) Insulin Overdose: Case Report by Mamatha Oduru, Mahmood Ahmad

“…Overall mortality is 2.7% with prognosis poorest in patients who are admitted with decreased Glasgow Coma scale (GCS) 12 hours after overdose.…”
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L’Ase Negre (1946 - 1949), première revue d’occitanisme politique d’après-guerre by Philippe Canales

“…Testut coma un ase negre (literally: stubborn like a black mule), Ase Negre, resuming this saying showing the stubbornness of the young post-war occitanists Hélène Cabanes, Léon Cordes and Robert Lafont, is the new political review (that) they launched by being inspired by the magazine Occitania upon which we shall stop as well as on the personality of its founder Charles Camproux. …”
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Salmonella enterica Serotype Arizonae Meningitis in a Neonate by Wubishet Lakew, Abayneh Girma, Elizabeth Triche

“…Despite prompt treatment with ampicillin, gentamicin, and ceftriaxone, she developed communicating hydrocephalus, frequent seizures, and coma that progressed to death after 2 weeks of hospitalization. …”
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Chandipura virus: The 2024 resurgence and Gujarat outbreak by Rabin Debnath, Pooja A Chawla

“…The aggressiveness of the virus is highlighted by the quick development from fever to severe neurological symptoms, such as seizures and coma. Public health initiatives concentrate on vector management and supportive care because there is no particular antiviral medication or vaccine available. …”
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Modulation of brain activity in brain-injured patients with a disorder of consciousness in intensive care with repeated 10-Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS): a... by David Williamson, Francis Bernard, Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Caroline Arbour, Virginie Williams, Louis de Beaumont, Catherine Duclos, Béatrice P De Koninck, Daphnee Brazeau, Amelie A Deshaies, Marie-Michele Briand, Charlotte Maschke

“…Both phases will be conducted in medically stable brain-injured adult patients (traumatic brain injury and hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy), with a Glasgow Coma Scale score ≤12 after continuous sedation withdrawal. …”
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Cerebral Arterial Air Embolism Associated with Mechanical Ventilation and Deep Tracheal Aspiration by S. Gursoy, C. Duger, K. Kaygusuz, I. Ozdemir Kol, B. Gurelik, C. Mimaroglu

“…A 65-year-old man, who had subarachnoid hemorrhage with Glasgow coma scale of 8, was admitted to intensive care unit and ventilated with the help of mechanical ventilator. …”
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Sorafenib-Induced Liver Failure: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Anneleen Van Hootegem, Chris Verslype, Werner Van Steenbergen

“…In this paper, a patient with HCC with lung metastases developed high fever and a severe hepatitis that rapidly evolved into liver coma and death, two weeks after the initiation of Sorafenib. …”
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Design and Analysis of Target Simulator Using All Spherical System with High Matching Rate by Shijie Li, Xiaojing Zhang, Kai Zhao, Zihuai Li, Xiong Li, Lumin Zhao, Jin Zhang, Changlong Cai

“…To achieve low wavefront error and high throughput with vignetting-free target simulators, a concave-convex-concaveoff-axis spherical system is designed in this paper, which effectively eliminates astigmatism and coma of the system by fields of view (FOVs) and aperture offset and provides theoretical basis for the realization of 100% matching between the exit pupil of the field lens and entrance pupil of the three-mirror anastigmat (TMA) system. …”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of immediate vs. elective thoracic endovascular aortic repair for blunt thoracic aortic injury by Zhaohui Hua, Baoning Zhou, Wenhao Xue, Zhibin Zhou, Jintao Shan, Lei Xia, Yunpeng Luo, Yiming Chai, Zhen Li

“…These factors included demographics, comorbidities, concomitant injuries, cause and location of aortic injury, Glasgow coma scale score, society for vascular surgery grading, hemoglobin concentration, creatinine concentration, shock, systolic blood pressure, and heart rate at admission. …”
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Key prognostic risk factors linked to poor functional outcomes in cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Lili Lin, Senfeng Liu, Wei Wang, Xiao-kuo He, Muhammad Hibatullah Romli, Ruthpackiavathy Rajen Durai

“…Other notable risk factors included age, intracranial hemorrhage, seizures, coma, D-dimer, parenchymal lesions, and hyperglycemia. …”
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Efficacy of halopeRIdol to decrease the burden of Delirium In adult Critically ill patiEnts (EuRIDICE): study protocol for a prospective randomised multi-centre double-blind placeb... by John W Devlin, Zoran Trogrlic, Mathieu van der Jagt, Lisa Smit, Robert-Jan Osse, Huibert H Ponssen, Arjen J C Slooter, Nicole G M Hunfeld, Wim J R Rietdijk, Diederik Gommers, M. van den Boogaard, A.J.B.W. Brouwers, J.A. Lens, B.J.M. van der Meer, H. Ponssen, F.J. Schoonderbeek, K.S. Simons, E. Berger, A. Bouman, M. Campo, D. van Duijn, H. Embden – van Donk, D. van de Graaf, E. Hoogendoorn, P. Ormskerk, N. Roovers, E. Toscano, A. Vileito, T. van Zuylen, C. Exler, E. van den Berg, J. van Meeteren, M. Koopmanschap, I. Nutma, E. Kuijper

“…Main study endpoint is delirium and coma-free days (DCFD) up to 14 days after randomisation. …”
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