Coma Stimulation and Coma Recovery¹

Issue title: Traumatic Brain Injury

Subtitle: A Critical Review

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Zasler, Nathan D. | Kreutzer, Jeffrey S. | Taylor, Donald

Affiliations: Medical College of Virginia, Richmond

Note: [1] This work was partly supported by Grant H133B80029 from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, United States Department of Education.

Abstract: Appropriate care and management strategies for low level patients after traumatic brain injury are at best controversial. Management issues tend to be confounded by inconsistencies in the neurorehabilitation nomenclature; misunderstandings regarding “normal” neurological recovery patterns after severe brain injury; inconsistencies or lack of appropriate functional measures; and inadequate knowledge pertaining to scientifically sound practices for neuromedical assessment and management of this special patient population. This article attempts to clarify issues pertaining to the state-of-the-art aspects of “coma stimulation” and the neuromedical recovery and management of low level patients with brain injury.

DOI: 10.3233/NRE-1991-1304

Journal: NeuroRehabilitation, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 33-40, 1991