Table of Contents
1. Definitions, Diagnostic Criteria, and Clinical Assessment Scales in Disorders of Consciousness 2. A Historical Review of Consciousness and Its Disorders 3. Neuroscience of Coma 4. An Evidence-Based Approach to Diagnosis of Disorders of Consciousness 5. Cardiac Arrest and Disorders of Consciousness 6. Traumatic Brain Injury and Disorders of Consciousness 7. Advances in Neuroimaging in Disorders of Consciousness 8. Electrophysiology in disorders of consciousness 9. Evoked potentials in patients with disorders of consciousness 10. Blood and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Disorders of Consciousness 11. Medical and Surgical Treatments in Disorders of Consciousness 12. Non-pharmacologic interventions in disorders of consciousness 13. Emerging Ethical Issues in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: A Clinical Guide 14. Neurologic Prognostication in Coma and Disorders of Consciousness 15. The Curing Coma Campaign: A Platform for Advancing Science and Clinical Care Worldwide
Authors
Peter W. Kaplan Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, USA. Dr. Peter Kaplan is Professor of Neurology and serves as the Director of Epilepsy and EEG at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He focuses on epilepsy, clinical neurophysiology and nonconvulsive status epilepticus. He has written extensively about these subjects as well as about eclampsia and neurologic disease in women.Dr. Peter Kaplan received his medical training from St. Bartholomews Medical School, University of London. He then obtained membership to the Royal College of Physicians in England. He completed his residency in neurology at Duke University Medical Center. He completed fellowships in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at the same institution. Romergryko G. Geocadin Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Baltimore, MD, USA. Romergryco Geocadin is at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Baltimore, MD, United States.
