Atlas of Intensive Care Quantitative EEG / Edition 1

by Marcus C. Ng MD, Jin Jing PhD, M. Brandon Westover MD, PhD

Overview

Atlas of Intensive Care Quantitative EEG is the first resource fully dedicated to quantitative EEG (QEEG) analysis, tailored to any physician or EEG technologist who works with critically ill patients. With the rise of continuous EEG monitoring in intensive care, clinicians are increasingly called on to make real-time clinical judgments with little formal guidance on how to interpret QEEG. This book is configured to meet daily practice challenges. It addresses not only technical fundamentals but also provides numerous examples of signature QEEG patterns and artifacts to instruct both untrained and experienced eyes.

Comprehensive in scope, this unique atlas walks the reader from essential principles all the way through to practical pattern recognition. With full-page reference samples pairing raw EEG with quantitative EEG spectrograms, brief clinical vignettes, and explanatory captions noting significant features, this book provides a roadmap for understanding and applying QEEG data in critically ill patients. Unrivaled in the breadth of its coverage and level of detail, its thorough discussions of both normal and abnormal findings and QEEG artifacts set the standard for effective use of quantitative electroencephalography and trend analysis in the ICU. Complete with a broad range of patterns and page after page of full-color samples, this book is designed to be the authoritative QEEG reference for neurologists, intensivists, technologists, and trainees working in critical care settings.

Key Features:
• Includes full spectrum of abnormal ICU QEEG findings with multiple examples of each pattern to assist readers in recognizing the range of findings encountered in clinical practice
• Contains more than 400 full-page vivid color QEEG examples paired with raw EEG to build interpretive skills and enhance clinical decision-making
• Concise presentation of fundamental principles of QEEG
• Detailed analysis of QEEG artifacts that can be mistaken for abnormal findings
• Purchase includes access to the ebook for use on most mobile devices or computers

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826193544
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	11/13/2019
Pages:	506
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marcus C. Ng, MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Epileptologist, Section of Neurology

Department of Internal Medicine

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Jin Jing, PhD

Postdoctoral/Research Fellow

MGH Neurology Department

Harvard Medical School

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

M. Brandon Westover, MD, PhD

Director, MGH Critical Care Brain Monitoring Service

MGH Neurology Department

Harvard Medical School

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Table of Contents

Preface

SECTION ONE: PRINCIPLES OF QUANTITATIVE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY

Chapter 1: Introduction to EEG Spectrograms

SECTION TWO: CLINICAL PRACTICE OF QUANTITATIVE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY

Chapter 2: Normal Findings, Awake

Chapter 3: Normal Findings, Drowsiness, and Sleep

Chapter 4: Benign Variants

Chapter 5: Activation Procedures

Chapter 6: Interictal Abnormalities, Slowing

Chapter 7: Interictal Abnormalities, Sporadic Discharges

Chapter 8: Ictal, Seizure(s)

Chapter 9: Ictal, Status Epilepticus

Chapter 10: The Interictal-Ictal Continuum, Rhythmic Delta Activity (RDA)

Chapter 11: The Interictal-Ictal Continuum, Periodic Discharges (PD)

Chapter 12: The Interictal-Ictal Continuum, Triphasic Modifier (+TW)

Chapter 13: The Interictal-Ictal Continuum, Spike-Wave (SW)

SECTION THREE: ARTIFACTS IN QUANTITATIVE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY

Chapter 14: Non-Cerebral Quantitative Electroencephalographic Artifacts

Index

Preface