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Is This Patient Dead, Vegetative, or Severely Neurologically Impaired?
JAMA 291:870-879, Booth,C.M.,et al, 2004
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Article Abstract
Simple physical examination maneuvers strongly predict death or poor outcome in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest. The most useful signs occur at 24 hours after cardiac arrest, and earlier prognosis should not be made by clinical examination alone. These data provide prognostic information, rather than treatment recommendations, which must be made on an individual basis incorporating many other variables.
 
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