Description

The introduction emphasizes the growing importance of electroencephalography (EEG) in the intensive care unit (ICU), where many patients have altered consciousness or suspected seizures that cannot be recognized through clinical examination alone. Continuous EEG monitoring has become an essential tool for detecting non-convulsive seizures, assessing brain function, monitoring treatment response, and assisting with prognosis in critically ill patients.

The book’s primary goals are to:

• Provide a practical, image-rich guide to recognizing common and important EEG patterns encountered in critical care.
• Help clinicians rapidly distinguish normal, abnormal, epileptic, and artifact-related EEG findings.
• Improve diagnostic accuracy for conditions such as non-convulsive status epilepticus, encephalopathy, stroke, coma, and post–cardiac arrest brain injury.
• Present current standards for continuous EEG interpretation, including the 2021 American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS) Critical Care EEG Terminology.