Continuous EEG in Pediatric Critical Care: Yield and Efficiency of Seizure Detection

• Published in: Journal of clinical neurophysiology Vol. 34; no. 5; p. 421
• Main Authors: Sansevere, Arnold J, Duncan, Elizabeth D, Libenson, Mark H, Loddenkemper, Tobias, Pearl, Phillip L, Tasker, Robert C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.09.2017
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Child; Child, Preschool; Consciousness Disorders - diagnosis; Critical Care - methods; Critical Care - standards; Electroencephalography - methods; Electroencephalography - standards; Female; Humans; Infant; Intensive Care Units, Pediatric - standards; Male; Monitoring, Physiologic - methods; Monitoring, Physiologic - standards; Seizures - diagnosis; Status Epilepticus - diagnosis; Young Adult

Our goal was to define the duration of continuous EEG (cEEG) monitoring needed to adequately capture electrographic seizures and EEG status epilepticus in the pediatric intensive care unit using clinical and background EEG features. Retrospective study of patients aged 1 month to 21 years admitted t...