Coma, Stupor, and Related Disorders of Consciousness

Dr. Peter Kaplan is Professor of Neurology and serves as the Director of Epilepsy and EEG at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He focuses on epilepsy, clinical neurophysiology and nonconvulsive status epilepticus. He has written extensively about these subjects as well as about eclampsia and neurologic disease in women. Dr. Peter Kaplan received his medical training from St. Bartholomews Medical School, University of London. He then obtained membership to the Royal College of Physicians in England. He completed his residency in neurology at Duke University Medical Center. He completed fellowships in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at the same institution. Romergryco Geocadin is at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Baltimore, MD, United States.

1. Definitions and terms in DOC including stupor and coma 2. A history of the literature on delirium, phrenezy, stupor and coma 3. The Neuroscientific Underpinnings/Neurology/Neurocircuitries of DOC 4. Differential diagnosis of DOC 5. Clinical assessments and scales in DOC 6. Advances in imaging in disorders of consciousness 7. Advances in EEG in encephalopathy and coma 8. Short-latency evoked potentials in encephalopathy and coma 9. Advances in long-latency evoked potentials in DOC, encephalopathy and coma 10. Advances in Blood and CSF based Biomarkers in DOC 11. Advances in multimodal monitoring of patients in DOC Suggestion 12. Computer modeling in DOC 13. A clinician’s approach to diagnosing disorders of consciousness, VS, PVS, MCS, LIS 14. Advances in pharmacology to improve DOC (amantadine, zolpidem, Ritalin etc.) 15. Advances in nonpharmacologic therapies to improve DOC 16. Invasive interventions in DOC 17. Ethical issues in patients with DOC; end of life; withdrawal of care 18. Decision making and prognosis in anoxic coma 19. Acute and Subacute Rehabilitation in DOC 20, Brain Computer Interface in DOC 21. How to approach the patient’s family for a patient in coma