The New Wave: Time to bring EEG to the Emergency Department

International Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Baki, Samah G Abdel ^a,b   Omurtag, Ahmet ^a   Fenton, André A ^a,c,d   Zehtabchi, Shahriar ^b  

^a Bio Signal Group Corp   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COST; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; EPILEPTIC STATE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; NON CONVULSIVE STATUS EPILEPTICUS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; REVIEW; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84857672860     PISSN: 18651372     EISSN: 18651380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1865-1380-4-36     Document Type: Review

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