Emergency Neurological Life Support: Approach to the Patient with Coma

Robert D. Stevens; Rhonda S. Cadena; Jose Pineda

doi:10.1007/s12028-015-0174-1

Emergency Neurological Life Support: Approach to the Patient with Coma

Robert D. Stevens, Rhonda S. Cadena, Jose Pineda

Division of Critical Care Medicine

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Abstract

Coma is an acute failure of neuronal systems governing arousal and awareness and represents a medical emergency. When encountering a comatose patient, the clinician must have an organized approach to detect easily remediable causes, prevent ongoing neurologic injury, and determine a hierarchical plan for diagnostic tests, treatments, and neuromonitoring. Coma was chosen as an Emergency Neurological Life Support protocol because timely medical and surgical interventions can be life-saving, and the initial work-up of such patients is critical to establishing a correct diagnosis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	69-75
Number of pages	7
Journal	Neurocritical Care
Volume	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12028-015-0174-1
State	Published - Dec 1 2015

Keywords

Coma
Consciousness
Critical care
Neurocritical care

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