Electroencephalographic Patterns in Neurocritical Care: Pathologic Contributors or Epiphenomena?

Quantitative Electroencephalography After Pediatric Anterior Circulation Stroke

“…Much of the existing work investigating continuous EEG in stroke patients has been in adult populations where there is more stability of frequency power bands in relation to age. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Furthermore, existing work largely focused on how to use QEEG in the detection of new ischemia, as opposed to understanding how changes in continuous EEG characteristics relate to dynamics of ischemic penumbra with cerebral oximetry, HR, and ABP during management immediately after stroke occurrence. Very limited evidence exists for monitoring pressure augmentation in patients with ischemic penumbra using continuous EEG, 9 but QEEG characteristics have not been studied.…”

“…This often comes in the form of arterial ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke (HS). The utility of EEG in monitoring for cerebral ischemia in adult neurocritical care is understood 1,2 with existing consensus recommendations, suggesting its use for identification of ischemia in patients at high risk. 3 When normal cerebral blood flow declines to approximately 25 to 35 mL·100 g −1 ·minute −1 , continuous EEG loses faster frequencies.…”

The relation between lesions and localization of sources of slow biphasic complexes in encephalitis

“…In the literature, several studies recognized the possibility to identify the etiological causes of different pathologies based on the EEG [24,25] . This allows us to advance diagnostic hypotheses and to outline predictive factors, establishing different outcomes.…”

Clinical trials for pediatric traumatic brain injury: definition of insanity?

“…This synchronized data aggregation or multimodality monitoring (MMM) of physiological parameters can occur in high temporal resolution in dashboards that allow one to explore trends in continuous quantitative values for physiological variables such as ICP or PbtO 2 , as well as analysis of time-synchronized waveforms of ICP, transcranial Doppler ultrasound flow velocities, or EEG. 7 Concurrent raw waveforms can be observed as well, allowing for identification of changing physiology as well as potential artifact (Fig. 2).…”