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The contribution of clinical neurophysiology to diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of patients in the Paediatric Intensive Care Units is increasingly recognised. The EEG and the evoked potentials play only a limited role in determining a specific etiological diagnosis but these techniques are valuable in identifying several patterns of clinical relevance. The severity of EEG, evoked potential abnormalities and their timing of recovery have a fundamental role in supporting the neurological prognosis in terms of survival, awakening from coma, major or minor future disabilities in the neurological development. Dealing with young patients in their growth and maturing phase requires considering age before performing examinations and as a factor to interpret the test results, along with the wide spectrum of disorders that lead to coma in children. When dealing with comatose children a dynamic neurophysiology approach based on a continuous EEG monitoring can be combined with intermittent con...
The role of clinical neurophysiology in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
Suppiej A
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2009
Abstract
The contribution of clinical neurophysiology to diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of patients in the Paediatric Intensive Care Units is increasingly recognised. The EEG and the evoked potentials play only a limited role in determining a specific etiological diagnosis but these techniques are valuable in identifying several patterns of clinical relevance. The severity of EEG, evoked potential abnormalities and their timing of recovery have a fundamental role in supporting the neurological prognosis in terms of survival, awakening from coma, major or minor future disabilities in the neurological development. Dealing with young patients in their growth and maturing phase requires considering age before performing examinations and as a factor to interpret the test results, along with the wide spectrum of disorders that lead to coma in children. When dealing with comatose children a dynamic neurophysiology approach based on a continuous EEG monitoring can be combined with intermittent con...I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
