Age/Gender | Brief history | Time of EEG after insult and findings | Time of CT/other imaging after inciting event and finding | Time of DW MR (days) | Outcome after support withdrawn |
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#1 | Apneic episode during surgery, resuscitated. | 1 day: burst suppression | CT: 4–5 hours, No significant abnormality. | 3 days | BD |
52/M | 3 days: low voltage with diffuse slowing | ||||
4 days: electrocerebral silence | |||||
#2 | Cardiac arrest, hypokalemia, resuscitated. | 2 days: electrocerebral silence | None performed. | 1.5 days | BD |
44/F | |||||
#3 | Presumed head trauma & cardiac arrest, resuscitated | None performed | CT: less than 2 hours, Small amount of SAH in sylvian fissure | 1.5 days | BD |
34/F | |||||
NMBF: 4 days, no intracranial perfusion | |||||
#4 | Acute intestinal bleed, hypovolemia, apnea, asystole, resuscitated | None performed | None performed | 5 days | PVS |
56/M | |||||
#5 | Hanging/suicide with cerebral hypoperfusion | 7 days: slow spike & periodic burst suppression | CT: within 2 hours, no significant abnormality | 2 days | PVS |
41/M | |||||
#6 | Cardiac arrest, resuscitated | 3 days: electrocerebral silence | CT: within 4 hours, no significant abnormality | 3 days | BD |
40/M |
Note.—DW indicates diffusion-weighted; NMBF, nuclear medicine blood flow study; SAH, subarachnoid hemorrhage; BD, Brain Death; PVS, permanent vegetative state.