The Lance-Adams syndrome: Helpful or just hopeful, after cardiopulmonary arrest

Abstract

In this case report, two patients are presented who developed myoclonic status epilepticus after severe hypoxic brain injury and were diagnosed as having Lance-Adams syndrome (post-hypoxic myoclonus). The diagnosis of Lance-Adams syndrome and the controversies and difficulties that surround its diagnosis and treatment and other aspects of prognostication in cardiac arrest are reviewed. © The Intensive Care Society 2011.