American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Standardized EEG Terminology and Categorization for the Description of Continuous EEG Monitoring in Neonates

Neonatal EEG and neurodevelopmental outcome in preterm infants born before 32 weeks

“…Recent neonatal EEG and aEEG current guidelines have refined normal and abnormal aspects 7 8 10–13 16 17. The French glossary17 has been supplemented with the American guidelines on neonatal EEG, including the preterm aspects 30. Simplifying the interpretation of neonatal EEG is possible, using quantitative method of signal analysis framing the amplitude (aEEG) and other features like spectral content or specific physiological patterns like delta brushes31–33 that are useful for long-term monitoring.…”

“…Simplifying the interpretation of neonatal EEG is possible, using quantitative method of signal analysis framing the amplitude (aEEG) and other features like spectral content or specific physiological patterns like delta brushes31–33 that are useful for long-term monitoring. Even though the predictive value of aEEG has mainly been studied among term neonates with hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy or seizures,34–36 these methods seem to have ample potential and should be developed for preterm applications to allow more ready use of EEG and to stimulate wider use of brain monitoring techniques 30 32 37…”

Long-term continuous monitoring of the preterm brain with diffuse optical tomography and electroencephalography: a technical note on cap manufacturing

“…A (reassuringly) small number of artifacts were identified while the neonate was in quiet sleep, according to EEG traces. Given, however, that identifying quiet sleep in very preterm neonates from an EEG trace is particularly challenging, 24 our analysis likely overestimated such artifacts, because the probability that the baby was likely to be awake was not negligible. Future studies should consider direct monitoring of sleep stages while acquiring DOT/EEG data.…”

“…23,24 The presence of motion artifacts in the DOT data during these EEG-derived periods was taken as an index of the NeoCAP's fit quality and effectiveness in absence of explicit movements of the neonate.…”

Electroencephalographic characteristics of epileptic seizures in preterm neonates

“…(Abend and Wusthoff, 2012;Tsuchida et al, 2013) Status epilepticus was defined as a single long seizure lasting more than 30 minutes or multiple shorter ictal discharges occupying more than 50 % of time for at least 30 minutes of recording time. (Tsuchida et al, 2013;Wusthoff et al, 2011) Ictal discharges were evaluated for location of onset, spread, duration and pattern of activity. (Andre et al, 2010) An electrographic seizure was defined as an EEG event without clinical accompaniment (motor or autonomic).…”