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Dr. Brenner has been on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh since 1983, and is now clinical professor of neurology and psychiatry. He has authored over 70 publications and was the medical editor of the American Journal of Electroneurodiagnostic Technology (2003-2006). He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS), and the American Epilepsy Society (AES). He was director of the clinical EEG course for the AAN from 1991 through 1995 and co-director of the annual AES course in 2001. He was director of clinical EEG courses for the ACNS from 2001-2003. He was president of the ACNS (2005-2006) and recently completed EEG on DVD-Adult: An Interactive Reading Session.
List of Contributors | |
Preface | |
Acknowledgements | |
EEG basics | |
Electrode nomenclature, polarity referential vs. bipolar montages | |
Normal EEG: awake and asleep | |
Suggested reading | |
EEG in encephalopathy | |
Nonspecific patterns of encephalopathy | |
Patterns suggesting specific diagnoses | |
Findings in specific clinical scenarios | |
Medication effects | |
Suggested reading | |
Seizures and status epilepticus | |
Suggested reading | |
Periodic discharges and other controversial EEG patterns | |
PLEDs, BIPLEDs, GPEDs and triphasic waves | |
SIRPIDs | |
Suggested reading | |
EEG in cerebrovascular disease | |
Ischemia | |
Hemorrhage | |
Suggested reading | |
Artifacts that can mimic seizures or other physiologic patterns | |
Suggested reading | |
Prolonged EEG monitoring and quantitative EEG techniques for detecting seizures and ischemia | |
Suggested reading | |
Evoked and event-related potentials in the ICU | |
Median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials | |
Brainstem auditory evoked potentials | |
Flash visual evoked potentials | |
Event-related potentials | |
References | |
Appendix The Critical Care Monitoring Committee of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Societys proposed standardized nomenclature for rhythmic and periodic EEG patterns encountered in the ICU: March 2009 version | |
Index | |
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