Wireless brain monitoring in the emergency department

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 2502-2505

  Bastani, Aveh ^a   Kayyali, Hani ^b   Schmidt, Robert N ^b   Qadir, Rizwan ^a   Manthena, Prasanth ^c  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Cleveland Medical Devices Inc   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain waves; EEG; Electroencephalogram; Emergency department; Nonconvulsive seizures

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HOSPITALS; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

BRAIN WAVES; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT; NONCONVULSIVE SEIZURES;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 33846930938     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1616977     Document Type: Conference Paper

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