RT Book, Section
A1 Alperin, Samuel
A1 Squires,, Melissa
A2 Hershey, Andrew D.
SR Print(0)
ID 1195237265
T1 Disorders of Consciousness
T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Pediatric Neurology
YR 2023
FD 2023
PB McGraw Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260457520
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1195237265
RD 2024/10/04
AB Consciousness  is  defined  by  2  components,  wakefulness  and  awareness,  requiring  arousal  (pontine  tegmentum  and  thalamus)  and  awareness  (cerebral  and  subcortical  structure).1,2  A  spectrum  of  disease  states  exists  for  disorders  of  consciousness  (DOC)  including  coma,  vegetative  state/unresponsiveness  wakefulness  syndrome  (UWS),  minimally  conscious  syndrome  (MCS),  emergence  from  MCS,  and  locked-in  state.  Assessment  of  DOC  in  children  is  complicated  by  age  and  developmental  stage,  and  more  formal  diagnostic  tools  and  outcome  assessments  in  children  continue  to  be  needed,3  as  DOCs  are  estimated  to  affect  more  than  130,000  children  per  year  in  the  United  States.4