Continuous EEG monitoring: Is it ready for prime time?

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 99-109

  Kurtz, Pedro ^a   Hanafy, Khalid A ^a   Claassen, Jan ^a,b  

^a Milstein Hospital   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous electroencephalography; Intensive care unit; Multimodality monitoring; Nonconvulsive seizures; Nonconvulsive status epilepticus; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DIAZEPAM; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PROPOFOL;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; COST CONTROL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICIAN; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VASOSPASM;

BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC;

EID: 67749099612     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e3283294947     Document Type: Review

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