ATLANTA — Efforts to better detect covert consciousness and to increase the chances for recovery among patients who appear to be in a vegetative state in the intensive care unit (ICU) are making ...
Nonconvulsive seizures can kill patients in the ICU. In one study, one-third of such patients died. Yet getting a patient diagnosed with a seizure in the ER or ICU is not easy. It requires an ...
Comatose survivors of cardiac arrest didn't benefit from intense treatment of seizure-like activity on continuous electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring, the TELSTAR trial showed. Between people ...
Using EEG to identify covert consciousness in unresponsive brain-injured patients could help predict which ones may recover, researchers have found. A new study finds that signs of covert ...
An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test that records the brain’s electrical activity. Healthcare professionals use it to help assess and understand neurological conditions, sleep disorders, and brain ...
Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Hello. I am Dr Andrew Wilner, and today I am at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with Dr Tenbit Emiru, chief of neurology and director of neurocritical ...