Atlas of EEG in Critical Care (eBook)

Dr. Hirsch completed medical school and internship at Yale University. He was resident and chief resident at the Neurological Institute of New York where he also completed a two-year fellowship in Epilepsy/EEG. He is currently Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology at Columbia University and Director of the Continuous EEG Monitoring Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. His primary interest is providing clinical care for adolescents and adults with epilepsy, including those who are potential candidates for epilepsy surgery and in diagnosing "funny spells". His research interests include effectiveness and tolerability of antiepileptic drugs, brain monitoring in the critically ill, brain stimulation for epilepsy, and cardiac effects of seizures. Dr. Brenner has been on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh since 1983, and is now clinical professor of neurology and psychiatry. He has authored over 70 publications and was the medical editor of the American Journal of Electroneurodiagnostic Technology (2003-2006). He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS), and the American Epilepsy Society (AES). He was director of the clinical EEG course for the AAN from 1991 through 1995 and co-director of the annual AES course in 2001. He was director of clinical EEG courses for the ACNS from 2001-2003. He was president of the ACNS (2005-2006) and recently completed EEG on DVD-Adult: An Interactive Reading Session.

Preface.

List of contributors.

1 EEG basics.

1.1 Electrode nomenclature, polarity and referential vs. bipolar
montages.

1.2 Normal EEG: awake and asleep.

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Figures 1.0-1.12.

2 EEG in encephalopathy.

2.1 Nonspecific patterns of encephalopathy.

2.2 Patterns suggesting specific diagnoses.

2.3 Findings in specific clinical scenarios.

2.4 Medication effects.

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Figures 2.1-2.35.

3 Seizures and status epilepticus.

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Figures 3.1-3.10.

4 Periodic discharges and other controversial EEG
patterns.

4.1 PLEDs, BIPLEDs, GPEDs and triphasic waves.

4.2 SIRPIDs.

4.3 Standardized nomenclature.

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Figures 4.1-4.18.

5 EEG in cerebrovascular disease.

5.1 Ischemia.

5.2 Hemorrhage.

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Figures 5.1-5.18.

6 Artifacts that can mimic seizures or other physiologic
patterns.

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Figures 6.1-6.20.

7 Prolonged EEG monitoring and quantitative EEG techniques
for detecting seizures and ischemia.

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Figures 7.1-7.10 Quantitative EEG (QEEG) basics.

Figures 7.11-7.17 Basics of seizure detection.

Figures 7.18-7.21 Cyclic seizures and PLEDs.

Figures 7.22-7.25 Other QEEG techniques and uses in patients
with seizures.

Figures 7.26-7.31 Detecting other (non-seizure) events.

Figures 7.32-7.35 Long-term trends.

Figures 7.36-7.46 ICU artifacts.

Figures 7.47-7.48 Spreading depression/peri-injury
depolarizations.

Figures 7.49-7.54 Multimodality monitoring and intracranial EEG
in the ICU.

8 Evoked and event-related potentials in the ICU.

8.1 Median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials.

8.2 Brainstem auditory evoked potentials.

8.3 Flash visual evoked potentials.

8.4 Event-related potentials.

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Appendix ACNS Standardized EEG Research Terminology and
Categorization for the investigation of rhythmic and periodic
patterns encountered in critically ill patients: July 2009
version.

Index.

"We highly recommend this atlas to all health care providers
interpreting electroencephalograms of critically ill patients or
managing critically ill patients who are undergoing EEG
monitoring." (Epilepsy & Behavior, 6 October 2010)



"This unique atlas provides a reasonably comprehensive overview
of common and controversial EEG patterns in the ICU, and is laden
with practical pearls of interpretation. It should serve the
interested intensivist well, and is an excellent starting point for
neurologists and neurosurgeons interested in the evolving fields of
neurocritical care and EEG monitoring." (Canadian Journal of
Neurological Sciences, November 2010)