METHOD TO PREDICT A DEGREE OF COMA SEVERITY Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, neurology. SUBSTANCE: method deals with functional evaluation of respiratory and cardiovascular systems, subcortical and brain stem structures, cranial-cerebral nerves, muscular tone, surface and deep reflexes followed by additional investigation of deep reflexes from long radial wrist extensor and extensor of fingers. EFFECT: higher efficiency to prevent underevaluation of the degree of disease severity at III stage coma, avoid incorrect diagnostics of atonia at IV stage coma, observe a disease dynamics at III and IV stage coma and conduct prediction for life in case of IV stage coma at accuracy being 85%. 1 tbl, 4 dwg