Ocular bobbing/dipping after cardiac arrest may be a post-anoxic myoclonus.

Resuscitation

Department of Neurology, Hôpital du Valais, Sion, Switzerland; Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address:

Published: March 2018

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