TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 17. Coma and Related Disorders of Consciousness A1 - Ropper, Allan H. A1 - Samuels, Martin A. A1 - Klein, Joshua P. Y1 - 2014 N1 - T2 - Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 10e AB - In hospital and emergency neurology, the clinical analysis of unresponsive and comatose patients becomes a practical necessity. There is always an urgent need to determine the underlying disease and the direction in which it is evolving in order to protect the brain against more serious or irreversible damage. When called upon, the physician must therefore be prepared to implement a rapid, systematic investigation of the comatose patient and prompt therapeutic and diagnostic action that allows little time for deliberate, leisurely investigation. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2022/05/20 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57614862 ER -