Snakebite Mimicking Brain Death: Bedside Clues

Agarwal et al.(1) have successfully managed three cases of snakebites who manifested features similar to brain death but were not true brain dead. Most likely these cases might have gone on to a status of locked-in syndrome (LIS). LIS is a status in which there is complete paralysis of voluntary mus...

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Autores principales: Senthilkumaran, Subramanian, Balamurugan, Namasivayam, Karthikeyan, Nanjundan, Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah
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Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8693118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35027811
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23851
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author Senthilkumaran, Subramanian
Balamurugan, Namasivayam
Karthikeyan, Nanjundan
Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah
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description Agarwal et al.(1) have successfully managed three cases of snakebites who manifested features similar to brain death but were not true brain dead. Most likely these cases might have gone on to a status of locked-in syndrome (LIS). LIS is a status in which there is complete paralysis of voluntary muscles in all parts of the body except for those that control eye movements. Moreover, this condition makes an individual completely mute and paralyzed in a conscious patient.(2) In these individuals, communication may be possible through eye movements. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Senthilkumaran S, Balamurugan N, Karthikeyan N, Thirumalaikolundusubramanian P. Snakebite Mimicking Brain Death: Bedside Clues. Indian J Crit Care Med 2021; 25(12):1464.
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spelling pubmed-86931182022-01-12 Snakebite Mimicking Brain Death: Bedside Clues Senthilkumaran, Subramanian Balamurugan, Namasivayam Karthikeyan, Nanjundan Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah Indian J Crit Care Med Letter to the Editor Agarwal et al.(1) have successfully managed three cases of snakebites who manifested features similar to brain death but were not true brain dead. Most likely these cases might have gone on to a status of locked-in syndrome (LIS). LIS is a status in which there is complete paralysis of voluntary muscles in all parts of the body except for those that control eye movements. Moreover, this condition makes an individual completely mute and paralyzed in a conscious patient.(2) In these individuals, communication may be possible through eye movements. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Senthilkumaran S, Balamurugan N, Karthikeyan N, Thirumalaikolundusubramanian P. Snakebite Mimicking Brain Death: Bedside Clues. Indian J Crit Care Med 2021; 25(12):1464. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2021-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8693118/ /pubmed/35027811 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23851 Text en Copyright © 2021; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/© The Author(s). 2021 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Snakebite Mimicking Brain Death: Bedside Clues
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topic Letter to the Editor
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35027811
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