[Value of pendulum-like oculonyorhythms and myorhythms of other muscles for prognosis of restoration of cerebral cortical function following hypoxia]. / Znachenie maiatnikoobraznykh okulomioritmii i mioritmii drugikh myshts dlia prognoza vosstanovleniia funktsii kory mozga posle gipoksii

In clinical and EEG studies of 92 patients where the preterminal and terminal states were arrested it was possible to demonstrate that the phenomenon of a spontaneous discharge of pendulum-like oculomyorhythms and myorhythms of the orbital muscles is a significantly negative sign pointing to irreversible cortical lesion. Conditioned by oculomyorhythm the artefacts seen in the EEG of comatose patients simulate an intactness of the brain electroactivity and are a source of an erroneous evaluation of the EEG.