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Neurostimulation for Patients in Vegetative Status
Author(s) -
KANNO TETSUO,
KAMEI YOSHIFUMI,
YOKOYAMA TETSUYA,
JAIN V. K.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1987.tb05949.x
Subject(s) - medicine , neurostimulation , stimulation , pulse (music) , volt , anesthesia , cerebral blood flow , blood flow , cardiology , voltage , physics , quantum mechanics
Dorsal column stimulation has been used in four patients who were in a persistent vegetative state. There was improvement of the EEG in four patients and clinical improvement in three patients. Stimulation was for 12 hours per day at 100 Hz, 5 to 8 volts, and with a pulse width of 0.12 msec. The mechanism of improvement may involve changes in cerebral blood flow.