Atlas of EEG in Critical Care

As the population ages, technology improves, intensive care medicine expands and neurocritical care advances, the use of EEG monitoring in the critically ill is becoming increasingly important. This atlas is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the uses of EEG monitoring in the critical care setting. It includes basic EEG patterns seen in encephalopathy, both specific and non-specific, nonconvulsive seizures, periodic EEG patterns, and controversial patterns on the ictal-interictal continuum. Confusing artefacts, including ones that mimic seizures, are shown and explained, and the new standardized nomenclature for these patterns is included. The Atlas of EEG in Critical Care explains the principles of technique and interpretation of recordings and discusses the techniques of data management, and 'trending' central to long-term monitoring. It demonstrates applications in multi-modal monitoring, correlating with new techniques such as microdialysis, and features superb illustrations of commonly observed neurologic events, including seizures, hemorrhagic stroke and ischaemia. This atlas is written for practitioners, fellows and residents in critical care medicine, neurology, epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology, and is essential reading for anyone getting involved in EEG monitoring in the intensive care unit.

ISBN 0470987863   Pages 344 ISBN13 9780470987865 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1174 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Published in Chicester Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)   Height (mm) 228 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 268 Publication date 08 Jan 2010   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY 616.8047547   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		EEG basics		1
2		EEG in encephalopathy		39
3		Seizures and status epilepticus		89
4		Periodic discharges and other controversial EEG patterns		129
5		EEG in cerebrovascular disease		161
6		Artifacts that can mimic seizures or other physiologic patterns		187
7		Prolonged EEG monitoring and quantitative EEG techniques for detecting seizures and ischemia		217
8		Evoked and event-related potentials in the ICU		299
Appendix		ACNS Standardized EEG Research Terminology and Categorization for the investigation of rhythmic and periodic patterns encountered in critically ill patients: July 2009 version		315
		Index		329

"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)

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