RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Pediatric cerebral resuscitation
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 317
OP 321
VO 50
IS 3
A1 Orlowski, James P.
YR 1983
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/50/3/317.abstract
AB Twenty-one pediatric patients suffered cerebral anoxic-ischemic insults and were considered candidates for cerebral resuscitation measures. Fifteen were randomly assigned to treatment protocols of either hypothermia to 30-31 °C, barbiturate coma using thiopental, or a combination of hypothermia and thiopental barbiturate coma. Six patients were not assigned to treatment protocols. One patient had an isoelectric electroencephalogram and absent brainstem auditory evoked potentials and was pronounced brain dead. The other 5 patients were showing signs of rapid neurologic recovery and did not require cerebral resuscitation measures. To date there is no significant difference in outcome between the treatment categories.