Rhythmic and periodic EEG patterns of 'ictal-interictal uncertainty' in critically ill neurological patients

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1176-1181

  Koren, Johannes P ^a   Herta, Johannes ^b   Pirker, Susanne ^a   Fürbass, Franz ^c   Hartmann, Manfred ^c   Kluge, Tilmann ^c   Baumgartner, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

EEG in coma; EEG patterns; Electrographic seizures; Periodic EEG patterns; Rhythmic EEG patterns; Standardized Critical Care EEG Terminology

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

AGED; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTRONEUROLOGY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; UNCERTAINTY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PERIODICITY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84957963704     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.09.135     Document Type: Article

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