Atlas of EEG in Critical Care

As the population ages, technology improves, intensive care medicine expands, and neurocritical care advances, the use of EEG monitoring in the critically ill is becoming increasingly important.  Neurologists and intensive care specialists need to become familiar with this technique.
This atlas is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the uses of EEG monitoring in the critical care setting. It includes basic EEG patterns seen in encephalopathy, both specific and nonspecific, nonconvulsive seizures, periodic EEG patterns, and controversial patterns on the ictal–interictal continuum. Confusing artefacts, including ones that mimic seizures, are shown and explained. The new standardized nomenclature for these patterns is included.
After the major section on EEG patterns from both a basic and advanced viewpoint, there is an extensive section on prolonged continuous digital EEG monitoring, including data reduction, screening, and trending techniques such as compressed spectral array. These techniques can aid efficient recognition of seizures, ischemia, and other neurologic events, and can help visualize long–term trends.
Explains principles of technique and interpretation of recordingsDiscusses methods of data management, and ‘trending’ central to long–term monitoringDemonstrates applications in multi–modal monitoring, correlating with new techniques such as microdialysisFeatures superb illustrations of commonly observed neurologic events, including seizures, hemorrhagic stroke and ischemiaIllustrates commonly observed artifacts and ‘problem’ readingsIncludes new nomenclature for EEG findings in the critically ill
Atlas of EEG in Critical Care is an essential tool for practitioners, fellows and residents in critical care medicine, neurology, epilepsy, and clinical neurophysiology

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Contents
List of contributors< br>Preface
Acknowledgements
1 EEG basics
1.1 Electrode nomenclature, polarity, referential vs. bipolar montages
1.2 Normal EEG: awake and asleep
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2 EEG in encephalopathy
2.1 Nonspecific patterns of encephalopathy
2.2 Patterns suggesting specific diagnoses
2.3 Findings in specific clinical scenarios
2.4 Medication effects
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3 Seizures and status epilepticus
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4 Periodic discharges and other controversial EEG patterns
4.1 PLEDs, BIPLEDs, GPEDs and triphasic waves
4.2 SIRPIDs
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5 EEG in cerebrovascular disease
5.1 Ischemia
5.2 Hemorrhage
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6 Artifacts that can mimic seizures or other physiologic patterns
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7 Prolonged EEG monitoring and quantitative EEG techniques for detecting seizures and ischemia
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8 Evoked and event–related potentials in the ICU
8.1 Median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials
8.2 Brainstem auditory evoked potentials
8.3 Flash visual evoked potentials
8.4 Event–related potentials
References
Appendix The Critical Care Monitoring Committee of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society’s proposed standardized nomenclature for rhythmic and periodic EEG patterns encountered in the ICU: March 2009 version
Index


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As the population ages, technology improves, intensive care medicine expands, and neurocritical care advances, the use of EEG monitoring in the critically ill is becoming increasingly important.  Neurologists and intensive care specialists need to become familiar with this technique.
This atlas is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the uses of EEG monitoring in the critical care setting. It includes basic EEG patterns seen in encephalopathy, both specific and nonspecific, nonconvulsive seizures, periodic EEG patterns, and controversial patterns on the ictal& #8211;interictal continuum. Confusing artefacts, including ones that mimic seizures, are shown and explained. The new standardized nomenclature for these patterns is included.
After the major section on EEG patterns from both a basic and advanced viewpoint, there is an extensive section on prolonged continuous digital EEG monitoring, including data reduction, screening, and trending techniques such as compressed spectral array. These techniques can aid efficient recognition of seizures, ischemia, and other neurologic events, and can help visualize long–term trends.
Explains principles of technique and interpretation of recordingsDiscusses methods of data management, and ‘trending’ central to long–term monitoringDemonstrates applications in multi–modal monitoring, correlating with new techniques such as microdialysisFeatures superb illustrations of commonly observed neurologic events, including seizures, hemorrhagic stroke and ischemiaIllustrates commonly observed artifacts and ‘problem’ readingsIncludes new nomenclature for EEG findings in the critically ill
Atlas of EEG in Critical Care is an essential tool for practitioners, fellows and residents in critical care medicine, neurology, epilepsy, and clinical neurophysiology