American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Standardized EEG Terminology and Categorization for the Description of Continuous EEG Monitoring in Neonates

BACKGROUND Critically ill neonates are at high risk for adverse neurologic sequelae, but the bedside evaluation of a neonate's neurologic status, especially cortical functioning, is extremely limited. In such circumstances, continuous video EEG provides particularly useful information about brain function and can identify electroencephalographic seizures without clinical correlate (Clancy et al., 1988; Murray et al., 2008). For these reasons,...