Continuous eeg monitoring in the intensive care unit

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 419-428

  Kennedy, Jeffrey D ^a   Gerard, Elizabeth E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cEEG; Continuous video EEG monitoring; EEG; ICU; Intensive care unit; Nonconvulsive seizure; Nonconvulsive status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; LORAZEPAM; PHENYTOIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEUROMONITORING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 84865643791     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-012-0289-0     Document Type: Article

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