{"id":91527,"date":"2019-06-01T20:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T03:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/zolpidem-arouses-patients-in-vegetative-state-after-brain-injury-quantitative-evaluation-and-indications"},"modified":"2019-06-01T20:23:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T03:23:14","slug":"zolpidem-arouses-patients-in-vegetative-state-after-brain-injury-quantitative-evaluation-and-indications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/zolpidem-arouses-patients-in-vegetative-state-after-brain-injury-quantitative-evaluation-and-indications","title":{"rendered":"Zolpidem arouses patients in vegetative state after brain injury: quantitative evaluation and indications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zolpidem-arouses-patients-in-vegetative-state-after-brain-injury-quantitative-evaluation-and-indications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Am J Med Sci. 2014 Mar;347:178\u201382. doi: 10.1097\/MAJ.0b013e318287c79c.<\/p>\n<p>BACKGROUND: To investigate the efficacy and indications of zolpidem, a nonbenzodiazepine hypnotic, inducing arousal in vegetative state patients after brain injury.<\/p>\n<p>METHODS: One hundred sixty-five patients were divided into 4 groups, according to area of brain damage and injury mechanism. All patients\u2019 brains were imaged by Tc-ECD single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT), before and 1 hour after treatment with 10 mg of zolpidem. Simultaneously, 3 quantitative indicators of brain function and damage were obtained using cerebral state monitor. Thirty-eight patients withdrew from the study after the first zolpidem dose. The remaining 127 patients received a daily dose of 10 mg of zolpidem for 1 week and were monitored again at the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/m\/pubmed\/23462249\/?i=4&from=%2F28534652%2Frelated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am J Med Sci. 2014 Mar;347:178\u201382. doi: 10.1097\/MAJ.0b013e318287c79c. BACKGROUND: To investigate the efficacy and indications of zolpidem, a nonbenzodiazepine hypnotic, inducing arousal in vegetative state patients after brain injury. METHODS: One hundred sixty-five patients were divided into 4 groups, according to area of brain damage and injury mechanism. All patients\u2019 brains were imaged by Tc-ECD [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}