Continuous electroencephalographic monitoring in critically ill patients: Indications, limitations, and strategies

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1124-1132

  Sutter, Raoul ^a,b   Stevens, Robert D ^a,b   Kaplan, Peter W ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

continuous electroencephalographic monitoring; encephalopathy; neurocritical care; seizures; status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMA; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MEDLINE; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 84875777446     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318275882f     Document Type: Review

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