Unconsciousness - Diagnosis
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Blackout? Cause: misdiagnosis of cardiac arrest.

30 Jul 2009 Patients with syncope or epilepsy commonly present to primary or secondary care physicians. This lesson presents two patients, both known to have cardiac disease, with implanted cardiac devices, who presented with loss of consciousness, who were ... Read more...

Impaired consciousness during temporal lobe seizures is related to increased long-distance cortical-subcortical synchronization.

2 May 2009 Loss of consciousness (LOC) is a dramatic clinical manifestation of temporal lobe seizures. Its underlying mechanism could involve altered coordinated neuronal activity between the brain regions that support conscious information processing. The ... Read more...

Recommendations for diagnosing a mild traumatic brain injury: a National Academy of Neuropsychology education paper.

15 Mar 2009 A special interest group of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine [ACRM; Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee. (1993). Definition of mild traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 8 (3), 86-87.] was the first ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Unconsciousness - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Cyanide poisoning in Taiwan. Oct 2009
• Predictors of poor neurologic outcome after induced mild hypothermia following cardiac arrest. 20 Sep 2009
• Syncope. 30 Aug 2009
• Blackout? Cause: misdiagnosis of cardiac arrest. 30 Jul 2009
• Impaired consciousness during temporal lobe seizures is related to increased long-distance cortical-subcortical synchronization. 2 May 2009
• [Syncope, loss of consciousness, and seizures in the adults] 18 Mar 2009
• Recommendations for diagnosing a mild traumatic brain injury: a National Academy of Neuropsychology education paper. 15 Mar 2009
• Transient loss of consciousness 1: causes and impact of misdiagnosis. 27 Feb 2009
• Predictive value of the Disorders of Consciousness Scale (DOCS). Feb 2009
• [Acute liver failure and heat stroke] 30 Jan 2009
• [Methods of localization of equivalent EEG sources in the diagnostics of protracted loss of consciousness] 30 Dec 2008
• Electroencephalographic order pattern analysis for the separation of consciousness and unconsciousness: an analysis of approximate entropy, permutation entropy, recurrence rate, and phase coupling of order recurrence plots. 29 Nov 2008
• Obtundation and seizure following ondansetron overdose in an infant. 29 Nov 2008
• Integrative basic sciences: change in mental status. 18 Oct 2008
• [Hashimoto encephalopathy--a difficult differential diagnosis. A case report of reversible dementia and psychosis] 30 Sep 2008
• Understanding anesthesia through functional imaging. 29 Sep 2008
• Neuroethics and neuroimaging: moving toward transparency. 30 Aug 2008
• FMRI in brain research in its historical context. 30 Aug 2008
• An interactive fall and loss of consciousness detector system. 24 Jul 2008
• [Treatment of the hypothermic patient] 31 May 2008

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Technical information about 'Unconsciousness'

Definition: Loss of the ability to maintain awareness of self and environment combined with markedly reduced responsiveness to environmental stimuli. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp344-5)

Descriptor UI: D014474

Alternative terms: Unconsciousness; Unconscious State; State, Unconscious; Unconscious States; Consciousness, Loss of; Loss of Consciousness;

Related Mesh Headings: Syncope;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.606.358.800; C23.888.592.604.359.800;

Technical Notes: do not confuse with UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY), unconscious behavior or "the unconscious" in psychol