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Abstract

The lecture reviews modern ideas of comatose conditions: their types, etiology, common key pathogenesis elements, stages, key manifestations, treatment principles; it characterizes the specifics of certain coma varieties and key impairments of consciousness.
Key words: coma, stupor, sopor, hypoxia, impairments of energy supply for neurons.
(Voprosy sovremennoi pediatrii — Current Pediatrics. 2010;9(5):48-54)

About the Author

P.F. Litvitsky
I.M. Sechenov 1st Moscow State Medical University
Russian Federation


References

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Litvitsky P. COMA. Current Pediatrics. 2010;9(5):48-54.

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