Movement disorders after hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest in adults.
Franziska ScheibeW J NeumannC LangeM ScheelC FurthM KöhnleinPhilipp MergenthalerJ Schultze-AmbergerP TriebkornP RitterA A KühnA MeiselPublished in: European journal of neurology (2020)
Post-hypoxic movement disorders associated with pronounced basal ganglia dysfunction might be efficiently controlled by levomepromazine or intrathecal baclofen. Their occurrence might be an indicator for a more unfavourable, but often not devastating, neurological outcome.