Continuous EEG Monitoring in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Systematic Review

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 450-461

  Kondziella, Daniel ^a,b,c   Friberg, Christian K ^a   Wellwood, Ian ^c   Reiffurth, Clemens ^c   Fabricius, Martin ^a   Dreier, Jens P ^c  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Delayed cerebral ischemia; Epilepsy; Quantitative EEG; Seizures; Spreading depolarizations; Spreading ischemia; Status epilepticus; Stroke; Subarachnoid bleeding; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPLICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEIZURES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING; SEIZURES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 84939876186     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-014-0068-7     Document Type: Article

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