Electroencephalographic seizure activity in the comatose critically III child: Getting closer to knowing what to do

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 362-363

  Tasker, Robert C ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

electroencephalography monitoring; nonconvulsive seizure; seizures; status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN DISEASE; COMATOSE PATIENT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEUROMONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

BRAIN DISEASES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 84872053499     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318270e27c     Document Type: Editorial

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