Atlas of EEG in Critical CareISBN: 978-0-470-98786-5
Hardcover
346 pages
February 2010
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List of contributors.
1 EEG basics.
1.1 Electrode nomenclature, polarity and referential vs. bipolar montages.
1.2 Normal EEG: awake and asleep.
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Figures 1.0-1.12.
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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Figures 2.1-2.35.
3 Seizures and status epilepticus.
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Figures 3.1-3.10.
4 Periodic discharges and other controversial EEG patterns.
4.1 PLEDs, BIPLEDs, GPEDs and triphasic waves.
4.2 SIRPIDs.
4.3 Standardized nomenclature.
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Figures 4.1-4.18.
5 EEG in cerebrovascular disease.
5.1 Ischemia.
5.2 Hemorrhage.
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Figures 5.1-5.18.
6 Artifacts that can mimic seizures or other physiologic patterns.
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Figures 6.1-6.20.
7 Prolonged EEG monitoring and quantitative EEG techniques for detecting seizures and ischemia.
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Figures 7.1-7.10 Quantitative EEG (QEEG) basics.
Figures 7.11-7.17 Basics of seizure detection.
Figures 7.18-7.21 Cyclic seizures and PLEDs.
Figures 7.22-7.25 Other QEEG techniques and uses in patients with seizures.
Figures 7.26-7.31 Detecting other (non-seizure) events.
Figures 7.32-7.35 Long-term trends.
Figures 7.36-7.46 ICU artifacts.
Figures 7.47-7.48 Spreading depression/peri-injury depolarizations.
Figures 7.49-7.54 Multimodality monitoring and intracranial EEG in the ICU.
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.
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Appendix ACNS Standardized EEG Research Terminology and Categorization for the investigation of rhythmic and periodic patterns encountered in critically ill patients: July 2009 version.
Index.