The corneal reflex plays an important role in the evaluation of a comatose patient particularly in the neurocritical care setting. This brainstem reflex is used for determination of neurological prognosis in cardiac arrest survivors and for the determination of brain death in those with irreversible, catastrophic brain death. [More…]
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