TY - JOUR
T1 - Amplitude-integrated electro-encephalography
T2 - The child neurologist's perspective
AU - Glass, Hannah C.
AU - Wusthoff, Courtney J.
AU - Shellhaas, Renée A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (5K23NS066137) and the Neonatal Brain Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco (to HCG). It was also supported by the NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (5K23HD068402) (to RAS).
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - Neurologists increasingly recognize that critically ill patients are at high risk for seizures, particularly nonconvulsive seizures, and that neuromonitoring is a useful tool for diagnosing seizures and assessing brain function in these patients. Amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (EEG) is a simplified bedside neurophysiology tool that has become widely used in neonates over the past decade. Despite widespread interest by both neurologists and neonatologists in continuous brain monitoring, amplitude-integrated EEG has been largely ignored by neurologists, forcing neonatologists to "go it alone" when interpreting data from this bedside tool. Although amplitude-integrated EEG cannot replace conventional EEG for background monitoring and detection of seizures, it remains a useful instrument that complements conventional EEG, is being widely adopted by neonatologists, and should be supported by neonatal neurologists.
AB - Neurologists increasingly recognize that critically ill patients are at high risk for seizures, particularly nonconvulsive seizures, and that neuromonitoring is a useful tool for diagnosing seizures and assessing brain function in these patients. Amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (EEG) is a simplified bedside neurophysiology tool that has become widely used in neonates over the past decade. Despite widespread interest by both neurologists and neonatologists in continuous brain monitoring, amplitude-integrated EEG has been largely ignored by neurologists, forcing neonatologists to "go it alone" when interpreting data from this bedside tool. Although amplitude-integrated EEG cannot replace conventional EEG for background monitoring and detection of seizures, it remains a useful instrument that complements conventional EEG, is being widely adopted by neonatologists, and should be supported by neonatal neurologists.
KW - electroencephalogram
KW - epilepsy
KW - hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
KW - neonatal seizures
KW - neurocritical
KW - neurointensive care
KW - seizure
KW - status epilepticus
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U2 - 10.1177/0883073813488663
DO - 10.1177/0883073813488663
M3 - Review article
C2 - 23690296
AN - SCOPUS:84884201203
SN - 0883-0738
VL - 28
SP - 1342
EP - 1350
JO - Journal of Child Neurology
JF - Journal of Child Neurology
IS - 10
ER -