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ReviewActa paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)2026

Reflections on Consciousness in Intensive Care.

Michael Broomé, Tiit Mathiesen

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Review in Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Michael BrooméDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Tiit MathiesenDepartment of Neurosurgery, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-9463-1919

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evaluating consciousness in intensive care is pivotal to relieving suffering with analgesic or sedative drugs and in prognosis and diagnoses. The usual clinical perspective is to equate consciousness with responsiveness, assuming functional motor responses and sympathetic activity of the patient. Clinical diagnoses of coma may be wrong in more than 15% of cases and are particularly challenging in neonatal and paediatric patients. In this narrative review, we present monitoring techniques, possible treatments and ethical implications of disorders of consciousness. Finally, models for understanding the origin of consciousness based on functional neuroanatomy and information processing theory are presented.

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ConsciousnessConsciousness DisordersCritical CareChildHumansconsciousnessethicsintensive caremonitoringsedationwithdrawal

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PMID41204755
PMCPMC12794747

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