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Choi and Kim: Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potential in a Case of Severe Carbon Monoxide Intoxication
Case Report
Yonsei Medical Journal

Yonsei Medical Journal 1983; 24(2): 149-152.

Published online: 20 February 2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3349/ymj.1983.24.2.149

Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potential in a Case of Severe Carbon Monoxide Intoxication

Il Saing Choi, Ki Whan Kim

Department of Neurology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Received 8 September 1983

Copyright © 1983 The Yonsei University College of Medicine

Abstract

A 36-year-old man was brought unconscious to the emergency room; he suffered anoxic brain damage due to carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication, and had decerebrate rigidity clinically and died 1 month later after the acute insult.
Computed tomography with contrast enhancement failed to show a brainstem lesion but the brainstem auditory evoked potential (BAEP) demonstrated the brainstem involvement.
The BAEP can be used as an objective diagnostic aid for evaluating brainstem lesions in CO intoxication.

Keywords: Brainstem auditory evoked potential, CO intoxication

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