A review of long-term EEG monitoring in critically ill children with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, congenital heart disease, ECMO, and stroke

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 134-142

  Abend, Nicholas S ^a   Dlugos, Dennis J ^a   Clancy, Robert R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Congenital heart disease; ECMO; EEG monitoring; Hypoxia ischemia; Pediatric; Seizure; Status epilepticus; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART ARREST; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LONG TERM CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; STROKE;

EID: 84876365445     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: 15371603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNP.0b013e3182872af9     Document Type: Review

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