Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Jun 2023
Randomized Controlled TrialAcute traumatic coma awakening by right median nerve electrical stimulation: a randomised controlled trial.
Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to acute coma and may result in prolonged disorder of consciousness (pDOC). We aimed to determine whether right median nerve electrical stimulation is a safe and effective treatment for accelerating emergence from coma after TBI. ⋯ Right median nerve electrical stimulation is a possible effective treatment for patients with acute traumatic coma, that will require validation in a confirmatory trial.