Epilepsy and Intensive Care Monitoring: Principles and Practice

Epilepsy and Intensive Care Monitoring: Indications, Procedures and Administration; Patient Evaluation and Selection for Routine and Invasive Epilepsy Monitoring, Continuous EEG in the Intensive Care Unit: Indications and Procedures, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit Pediatric and Adult Management, EMU Design and Guidelines, Administrative Considerations in Epilepsy and ICU Monitoring: Coding and Diagnostic Classification. Technical Aspects of Epilepsy and Intensive Care Monitoring; EEG Localization and Interpretation, Computerized Signal Analysis and Event Detection. Epilepsy Monitoring: Differential Diagnosis; Special Considerations in Pediatric Monitoring, Seizure Classification in Epilepsy Monitoring; Epilepsy Syndromes, Neurologic and Cardiovascular Disorders that Resemble Seizures, Sleep Disorders that Resemble Seizures, Psychiatric Disorders that Resemble Seizure. Epilepsy Monitoring: Diagnostic and Presurgical Evaluations; Diagnostic and Localizing Behavioral Features of Epileptic Seizures, Diagnostic and Localizing Extracranial EEG Features of Epileptic Seizures, Diagnostic and Localizing Intracranial EEG Features of Epileptic Seizures, Intracranial Stimulation. ICU Monitoring: Medical and Surgical Neurological Disorders; Events that Mimic Seizures During ICU Monitoring; Convulsive Seizures and Status Epilepticus, Nonconvulsive Seizures and Status Epilepticus, Encephalopathy and Prognosis in Coma, Traumatic Brain Injury, Stroke and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Special Localizing Procedures: Neuroimaging Localizing Procedures, Language and Memory Testing. Appendices; Epilepsy Center Guidelines, ACNS Epilepsy Monitoring Guidelines, Resources.

Bruce Fisch MD, Professor of Neurology, Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

5 Stars!This book covers an important topic for which there are few resources - epilepsy and intensive care monitoring. The book is intended forfellowship and residency directors, epilepsy and ICU nurses, neurosurgeons, and healthcare administrators. In sum, anyone involved in the field of epilepsy and ICU monitoring. It includes excellent examples of EEG figures and helpful tables and figures. The guidelines at the end of the book are especially helpful. This is an excellent resource for any reader looking to garner information about monitoring. -Joseph I. Sirven, MD, Doody's Reviews--oseph I Sirven, MD"Doody's Reviews" (05/03/2010)