The Role of Electroencephalography in the Prognostication of Clinical Outcomes in Critically Ill Children: A Review
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Seizure Presence, Duration and Burden
2.1. Seizures
2.2. Status Epilepticus
2.3. Special Population: Children on ECMO
3. Background Features
3.1. Organization and Sleep Architecture
3.2. Special Population: Children with Cardiac Arrest
4. Periodic Features
4.1. Epileptiform Discharges
4.2. Generalized Periodic Discharges
4.3. Macroperiodic Oscillations
5. Electrographic Reactivity
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Seizures | Status Epilepticus | Background | Sleep Spindles | Reactivity | Epileptiform Discharges | Generalized Periodic Discharges | ||||
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Normal | Abnormal | Present | Absent | Present | Absent | |||||
Decreased mortality/ Improved function | Nishisaki et al., 2007 Ostendorf et al., 2016 | Ostendorf et al., 2016 Ducharme-Crevier et al., 2017 | RamachandranNair et al., 2005 Ostendorf et al., 2016 Prajongkit et al., 2019 | |||||||
No association with mortality/ function | Jette et al., 2006 Abend et al., 2013 Arndt et al., 2013 Wagenman et al., 2014 Sanchez Fernandez et al., 2017 Fung et al., 2019 Fung et al., 2021 MacDarby et al., 2021 | Gwer et al., 2012 Payne et al., 2014 Fung et al., 2021 | Akman et al., 2013 | |||||||
Increased mortality/ Worse function | Abend et al., 2013 Arndt et al., 2013 Topjian et al., 2013 Payne et al., 2014 Wagenman et al., 2014 Abend et al., 2015 Sanchez Fernandez et al., 2017 Fung et al., 2021 | Nishisaki et al., 2007 Topjian et al., 2013 Ducharme-Crevier et al., 2017 Fung et al., 2019 Fung et al., 2021 Topjian et al., 2021 | Vaewpanich et al., 2016 Topjian et al., 2021 | Mandel et al., 2002 RamachandranNair et al., 2005 Topjian et al., 2016 Fung et al., 2019 Fung et al., 2021 Topjian et al., 2021 | Fung et al., 2019 Fung et al., 2021 |
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Gilman, C.A.; Wusthoff, C.J.; Guerriero, R.M. The Role of Electroencephalography in the Prognostication of Clinical Outcomes in Critically Ill Children: A Review. Children 2022, 9, 1368. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9091368
Gilman CA, Wusthoff CJ, Guerriero RM. The Role of Electroencephalography in the Prognostication of Clinical Outcomes in Critically Ill Children: A Review. Children. 2022; 9(9):1368. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9091368
Chicago/Turabian StyleGilman, Carley A., Courtney J. Wusthoff, and Réjean M. Guerriero. 2022. "The Role of Electroencephalography in the Prognostication of Clinical Outcomes in Critically Ill Children: A Review" Children 9, no. 9: 1368. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9091368