Epilepsy and Intensive Care Monitoring Principles and Practice

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Product Description: Epilepsy and Intensive Care Monitoring: Principles and Practice contains detailed chapters covering all areas of clinical epilepsy monitoring. Featuring expert authors from the major epilepsy centers in the US, this seminal work reviews all current procedures and applications for monitoring adults and children with epilepsy in both ambulatory settings and the ICU. Opening sections are devoted to indications, procedures, administrative considerations, and technical aspects of epilepsy and ICU monitoring, followed by dedicated sections on EEG diagnosis and localization and monitoring of neurological disorders in the ICU. The book concludes with special procedures and an Appendix of classification syndromes, monitoring guidelines, and other helpful resources.

Key Features include:

• Covers both adult and pediatric epilepsy and ICU monitoring
• High quality EEG illustrations
• Comprehensive; no other book in this area has comparable breadth and depth
• Expert authors

Contents: 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