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 judgements 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
Contents:
Section One: Principles of Quantitative Electroencephalography
Chapter 1: Introduction to EEG Spectrograms
Qualitative and Quantitative EEG Analysis
Oscillations: EEG Background
Transients: Brief EEG Events
Evolving Patterns: Long EEG Events
Technical Considerations: Trade-Offs in Spectral Estimation Detail versus Noise Temporal versus Spectral Resolution
Understanding ICU EEG Spectrograms: Cardinal Patterns Regular Flames Choppy Flames Broadband Monotonous (BBM) Narrowband Monotonous (NBM) Stripes Suppressed Artifact
Section Two: Clinical Practice of Quantitative Electroencephalography
Chapter 2: Normal Findings, Awake
Posterior Dominant Rhythm Supraharmonic Subharmonic Mu Rhythm Beta Activity Lambda Waves
Chapter 3: Normal Findings, Drowsiness & Sleep
Hypnagogic Hypersynchrony Stage II Sleep Frontocentral Beta Activity Slow Roving Eye Movements Positive Occipital Sharp Transients Vertex Waves Sleep Spindles K Complexes Mittens Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Chapter 4: Benign Variants
14 6 Positive Spikes 6Hz Phantom Spike Wave
Waking, High Amplitude, Male (WHAM) Female, Old, Low Amplitude, Drowsiness (FOLD) Atypical Wicket Waves
Small Sharp Spikes Rhythmic Midtemporal Theta Activity of Drowsiness (RMTD) Ciganek Rhythm Sawtooth Waves Subclinical Rhythmic Electroencephalographic Discharges of Adults (SREDA)
Chapter 5: Activation Procedures
Hyperventilation Occipital Driving Asymmetric Visual Evoked Potentials Subharmonic Photomyoclonic Response Photoparoxysmal Response
Photoconvulsive Response
Chapter 6: Interictal Abnormalities, Slowing
Focal Temporal Frontal Central Occipital Generalized Alpha Coma Spindle Coma Theta Coma Electrocerebral Inactivity
Chapter 7: Interictal Abnormalities, Sporadic Discharges
Temporal Frontal Centroparietal Occipital Rolandic Multifocal
Chapter 8: Ictal, Seizure(s)
Temporal Frontal Centroparietal Occipital Hemispheric Paroxysmal Fast Activity Generalized Tonic-Clonic
Absence, Typical Absence, Atypical Myoclonic Slow Spike & Wave Electrodecremental
Chapter 9: Ictal, Status Epilepticus
Chapter 10: The Interictal-Ictal Continuum, Rhythmic Delta Activity (RDA)
Lateralized (LRDA) Generalized (GRDA) Bilateral Independent (BI-LRDA) Multifocal (MF-RDA)
Chapter 11: The Interictal-Ictal Continuum, Periodic Discharges (PD)
Lateralized (LPD) Generalized (GPD) Bilateral Independent (BIPD) Multifocal (MF-PD)
Chapter 12: The Interictal-Continuum, Triphasic Modifier ( TW)
Chapter 13: The Interictal-Ictal Continuum, Spike-Wave (SW)
Lateralized (LSW)
Section 3: Artifacts in Quantitative Electroencephalography
Chapter 14: Non-Cerebral Quantitative Electroencephalographic Artifacts
Alternating Current
Breach Rhythm
Cardioballistic
Chest Percussion
Electrocardiogram
Electroretinogram
Electrode
Eye Blinking
Glossokinetic
Myogenic
Nystagmus Lateral Rotational
Ocular Bobbing
Pacemaker
Pulse
Respirator
Shivering
Snoring
Sweating
Twitching
Vagal Nerve Stimulator
Ventilator
