Intraoperative and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) EEG monitoring is very useful in cases of possible brain damage, for example, during carotid endarterectomy, cardiac surgery and neurosurgery, or when subclinical seizures are suspected. Continuous EEG (cEEG) monitoring during surgery is a valid and sensitive instrument for recognizing and/or preventing perioperative ischemic insults or any epileptiform activity responsible for convulsive or nonconvulsive symptoms. Furthermore, it allows brain functions monitoring for anesthetic drug administration, to determine the depth of anesthesia and for adjusting drug levels to achieve a predefined neural effect, such as burst suppression. In ICU, cEEG monitoring is essential to identify electrical discharges that occur frequently in critically ill patients and that are often clinically undetected, but potentially harmful if the diagnosis and the treatment are delayed. In the last years, cEEG monitoring has become a widespread practice, especially because of the use of new digital equipments, which are extremely compact and easy to use, not requiring a constant connection to the power grid and thus avoiding artifacts. EEG tracings can be visualized in real-time or analyzed after acquisition, either online or offline, with qualitative and/or quantitative methods. Finally, it is worth remembering that EEGs can be recorded bedside from a peripheral recording unit and then sent to the central unit, so that neurophysiologists can examine the recordings from distance and process them without interfering with the patients’ management.

Neuromonitoring and Emergency EEG / Brienza, Marianna; Davassi, Chiara; Pulitano, Patrizia; Mecarelli, Oriano. - (2019), pp. 789-803. [10.1007/978-3-030-04573-9_48].

Neuromonitoring and Emergency EEG

Brienza, Marianna;Davassi, Chiara;Pulitano, Patrizia;Mecarelli, Oriano
2019

Abstract

Intraoperative and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) EEG monitoring is very useful in cases of possible brain damage, for example, during carotid endarterectomy, cardiac surgery and neurosurgery, or when subclinical seizures are suspected. Continuous EEG (cEEG) monitoring during surgery is a valid and sensitive instrument for recognizing and/or preventing perioperative ischemic insults or any epileptiform activity responsible for convulsive or nonconvulsive symptoms. Furthermore, it allows brain functions monitoring for anesthetic drug administration, to determine the depth of anesthesia and for adjusting drug levels to achieve a predefined neural effect, such as burst suppression. In ICU, cEEG monitoring is essential to identify electrical discharges that occur frequently in critically ill patients and that are often clinically undetected, but potentially harmful if the diagnosis and the treatment are delayed. In the last years, cEEG monitoring has become a widespread practice, especially because of the use of new digital equipments, which are extremely compact and easy to use, not requiring a constant connection to the power grid and thus avoiding artifacts. EEG tracings can be visualized in real-time or analyzed after acquisition, either online or offline, with qualitative and/or quantitative methods. Finally, it is worth remembering that EEGs can be recorded bedside from a peripheral recording unit and then sent to the central unit, so that neurophysiologists can examine the recordings from distance and process them without interfering with the patients’ management.
2019
Clinical electroencephalography
978-3-030-04572-2
978-3-030-04573-9
neuromonitoring, ICU, critical care
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Neuromonitoring and Emergency EEG / Brienza, Marianna; Davassi, Chiara; Pulitano, Patrizia; Mecarelli, Oriano. - (2019), pp. 789-803. [10.1007/978-3-030-04573-9_48].
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