Non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) makes up around one-third of all cases of SE, affecting approximately 1,000 to 4,000 individuals per year in Belgium. Compared with convulsive SE, NCSE has received considerably less attention, is underdiagnosed and undertreated. However, if recognised, NCSE can however be treated successfully. A workshop was convened by neurologists from major Belgian c...

BACKGROUND Poisoned patients are often treated in and discharged from pre-hospital health care settings. Studies of poisonings should therefore not only include hospitalized patients. AIMS To describe the acutely poisoned patients treated by ambulance personnel and in an outpatient clinic; compare patients transferred to a higher treatment level with those discharged without transfer; and stu...

OBJECTIVE To provide a succinct review of the evidence, framed for the emergency department clinician, for the application of targeted temperature management (TTM) for patients after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). SOURCES OF INFORMATION MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane database were searched for prospective and retrospective studies relevant to the indications of TTM, optimal timing ...

Seventy-four patients with hypertensive putaminal hemorrhage (HPH) were followed at least 6 months after treatment and estimated by ADL. They were graded according to the state of consciousness on admission. The grading consists of 6 grades: Grade 1, fully conscious; Grade 2, somnolent; Grade 3, stuporous; Grade 4, semi-comatose; and Grade 5, deeply comatose. Removal of HPH was performed in 18 ...

Humans can recognize categories of environmental sounds, including vocalizations produced by humans and animals and the sounds of man-made objects. Most neuroimaging investigations of environmental sound discrimination have studied subjects while consciously perceiving and often explicitly recognizing the stimuli. Consequently, it remains unclear to what extent auditory object processing occurs...

To investigate the occurrence of neurologic symptomatology in pediatric orthotopic liver transplantation patients and to evaluate the utility of CT in uncovering the origin of their symptoms, we reviewed the medical records and head scans (when performed) of 71 patients. Neurologic problems occurred in 48%; the majority involved seizures, mental status changes, or coma. Patients who only had se...

OBJECTIVE To assess the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in coma by heart rate variability (HRV). METHODS Sixteen comatose patients and 22 normal subjects with comparable ages and genders were studied. Patients were classified in two subgroups according to the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). Time, frequency, and informational HRV domain indices were calculated. RESULTS A notable reduction of HRV wa...