Review of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) clinical recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with chronic impairment of consciousness


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Diagnosis and treatment of patients with chronic disordes of consciousness (DoC) remains an insufficiently studied section of medicine, which has a significant need for factual data. The problematics of patients with CNS includes the uncertainty of the prognosis for an increase in the level of wakefulness, an extremely high dependence on the availability and quality of care, and a large number of complications arising as the disease progresses. This publication is a translation from English of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) clinical guidelines, the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) clinical recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with DoC, which were published in 2018 (Giacino J.T., Katz D.I., Schiff N.D., et al. Practice guideline update recommendations summary: Disorders of consciousness. Neurology. 2018;91(11):450-60. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000005926.)

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Vladimir A. Belkin

Clinical Institute of Brain, Ural State Medical University

Email: vbelkin@neuro-ural.ru
Senior Phisician at the Resuscitation Rehabilitation Department, Clinical Institute of Brain

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