Avaliação do coma

Última revisão: 17 Aug 2025
Última atualização: 18 Jul 2024

Resumo

Differentials

Common

  • Acidente vascular cerebral (AVC)
  • Parada cardíaca
  • Encefalopatia hipertensiva
  • Trombose da artéria basilar
  • Trombose venosa cerebral
  • Transtornos decorrentes do uso de bebidas alcoólicas
  • Abuso de substâncias e overdose
  • Intoxicação por monóxido de carbono
  • Encefalopatia associada com sepse
  • Meningite bacteriana
  • Síncope
  • Transtorno convulsivo
  • Lesão cerebral traumática
  • Hipoglicemia
  • Hiperglicemia
  • Encefalopatia hepática
  • Hiponatremia
  • Hipotireoidismo
  • Encefalopatia de Wernicke
  • Hipofosfatemia
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Uncommon

  • Hemorragia subaracnoide
  • Encefalite
  • Abscesso cerebral
  • Tumor cerebral
  • Hipernatremia
  • Hipercalcemia
  • Hipocalcemia
  • Hipermagnesemia
  • Hipomagnesemia
  • Porfiria
  • Distúrbio mitocondrial
  • Tempestade tireoidiana
  • Queimaduras
  • Hipertermia
  • Hipotermia
  • Apatia psicogênica
  • Estado de deaferentação
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Contributors

Authors

G. Bryan Young, MD, FRCPC
G. Bryan Young

Emeritus Professor of Neurology

University of Western Ontario

ON

Canada

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GBY declares that he has no competing interests.

同行评议者

Paul Vespa, MD

Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery

Director of Neurocritical Care

David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California

LA

利益声明

PV declares that he has no competing interests.

Steven Laureys, MD, PhD

Department of Neurology

Liege University Hospital

Head

Coma Science Group

Senior Research Associate

Belgian National Funds for Scientific Research

Cyclotron Research Centre

University of Liege

Belgium

Disclosures

SL is the author of one of the papers cited in this article.

Eelco F. Wijdicks, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology

Mayo Clinic

Rochester

MN

Disclosures

EFW declares that he has no competing interests.

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Key articles

Greer DM, Kirschen MP, Lewis A, et al. Pediatric and adult brain death/death by neurologic criteria consensus guideline. Neurology. 2023 Dec 12;101(24):1112-32.Full text  Abstract

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Head injury: assessment and early management. Sep 2023​ [internet publication].Full text

Carney N, Totten AM, O'Reilly C, et al. Guidelines for the management of severe traumatic brain injury 4th edition. September 2016 [internet publication].​Full text

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