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SPRINGER Verlag
Continuous EEG Monitoring
Principles and Practice
Vorteile
- Explains the use and interpretation of continuous EEG (cEEG) monitoring in critically ill patients
- Examines the value of cEEG monitoring in various special situations
- Covers practical topics such as billing, staffing issues, comparison of EEG machines, and training requirements for technologists and physicians
Über dieses Buch
This book is designed to meet the need for a practically
oriented textbook on the rapidly growing field of continuous
EEG (cEEG) monitoring. A wide range of key clinical aspects are
addressed, with explanation of status epilepticus
classification, criteria for institution of monitoring, seizure
patterns and their recognition, quantitative EEG analysis, and
neuroimaging in patients undergoing cEEG monitoring. The value
of cEEG and the nature of cEEG findings in various special
situations are then reviewed, covering particular pathologies,
critical care considerations, and prognostication. Treatments
of nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) and nonconvulsive
seizures (NCS) are discussed. The concluding section is devoted
to important administrative issues including billing, staffing
issues, comparison of EEG machines, and information technology
(IT) issues.Continuous EEG monitoring offers the only reliable
means of detecting seizures that are not clinically obvious in
critically ill patients. Such seizures are common:
approximately 20% of patients undergoing cEEG monitoring in
hospital have NCSE or NCS. Against this background, many
hospitals have started to offer cEEG monitoring as a basis for
delivery of appropriate treatment. By presenting the state of
the art in cEEG monitoring, this book will be invaluable to
practitioners including neurophysiologists, neurologists,
neurointensivists, intensivists, neurophysiology and epilepsy
fellows, and neurology residents.
Über den Autor
Prof. Aatif Husain, Duke University Medical Center,
Neurology, 330 Trent Drive, Durham, NC 27710, USADr. Saurabh R.
Sinha, Duke University Medical Center, Neurology, 330 Trent
Drive, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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