Shoulder pain and an isolated teres minor nerve lesion.

The finding of isolated teres minor denervation during examination of the shoulders using MRI occurs in 3% to 5.5% of examinations. We describe eight patients with shoulder pain, in whom electromyography revealed an isolated lesion in the motor branch of the axillary nerve to the teres minor muscle.

Somatosensory and brainstem auditory evoked potentials in cardiac arrest patients treated with hypothermia.

Objective: To evaluate the prognostic value of short-latency median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials and brainstem auditory evoked potentials in outcome prediction for comatose cardiac arrest patients treated with hypothermia.

Design: Prospective, randomized, controlled trial of mild hypothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; a substudy of the European Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest study.

Setting: Intensive care unit of a tertiary referral hospital (Helsinki University Central Hospital).