Category: Seizure
EEG – A Powerful and Often Overlooked Diagnostic Tool
EEG tests and EEG monitoring are currently underused when it comes to identifying common diseases and performing neurological assessments in hospital patients, particularly in the United States and Canada. The expanded use of EEG can assist clinicians in making an accurate diagnosis, neurological assessment, or prognosis in patients.
Read MorePsychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures: Common and Difficult to Diagnose
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures are common and have a wide variety of symptoms, but can often be misdiagnosed and misunderstood.
Read MoreEEG in Therapeutic Hypothermia Following Global Ischemic Injury to the Brain
TH in the setting of global ischemic injury to the brain is a treatment that benefits from EEG monitoring in adult, pediatric, and neonatal patients.
Read MoreEEG – a Frontline Tool for the ED
The role for EEG evaluation and monitoring in the ED is well documented, though … there are challenges to obtaining an EEG recording and having it accurately read in a timely manner.
Read MoreUpdate on the impact of COVID-19 on EEG activity
Reports from Wuhan and Lombardy early in this pandemic indicated that COVID-19 has a significant impact on the brain. In the acute period of SARS-CoV-2 infection, 34.6 % patients were observed to have neurological symptoms including stroke, headache, and seizures. Basic science studies on mechanism of viral entry and vascular involvement have corroborated these observations […]
Read MoreLong-Term Video-EEG Studies: EMU vs. In-Home
Long-term EEG studies can take days or weeks to schedule and complete, and studies taking place in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) come with increased risk in today’s circumstances. The COVID-19 pandemic has tightened restrictions in hospitals everywhere. For many patients, (in particular, those who only require scalp EEGs and are not having their antiepileptic […]
Read MoreTeleneurology is Helping Rural Hospitals Retain Patients
Telemedicine or telehealth has been described as a path to virtual integrated care and is changing health care delivery in communities across the United States (US). The use of telehealth in hospitals has grown rapidly from 35% in 2010 to 76% in 2017, connecting patients to vital health care services with consulting practitioners at a […]
Read MoreResources & Recommendations for Neurodiagnostic Testing During COVID-19
ASET- The Neurodiagnostic Society Recently the American Society for Electrodiagnostic Technologists (ASET) published its recommendations on the appropriate infection control precautions to follow when providing needed diagnostic EEG procedures, assuming the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. We have a link below to the document. ASET has also made available, in pre-publication, […]
Read MoreACNS Resources for Managing Requests for Neurodiagnostic Testing
Recently, the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS) published a series of resources covering technologist safety, equipment cleaning, physician staffing and how to manage orders and requests for neurodiagnostic testing, including inpatient EEGs, elective monitoring of patients in the EMU and outpatient testing such as routine and ambulatory video-EEG studies. CortiCare has New EEG Solutions to […]
Read MoreNew EEG Solutions for New Challenges
March 2020 New Challenges The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many clinicians and facilities to reassess priorities and the processes for delivering services. This is clearly true in the healthcare segments that CortiCare serves, namely the evaluation and monitoring of patients suspected or at risk for seizures or other brain function complications from chronic or acute […]
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