Acute brain failure in severe sepsis: a prospective study in the medical intensive care unit utilizing continuous EEG monitoring

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 686-694

  Gilmore, Emily J ^a   Gaspard, Nicolas ^a,b   Choi, Huimahn A ^c   Cohen, Emily ^d   Burkart, Kristin M ^e   Chong, David H ^e   Claassen, Jan ^e   Hirsch, Lawrence J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous EEG; Critical Care; Nonconconvulsive seizures; Periodic discharges; Reactivity; Septic encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

AGED; APACHE; COMPLICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURES; SEPSIS;

AGED; APACHE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SEPSIS; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 84939938584     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-015-3709-1     Document Type: Article

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