[Pilot study of the spectral analysis of the bifrontal EEG in healthy and newborn infants at risk].
The importance of neonatal bifrontal EEG recordings which were easily obtainable during intensive care was tested to improve the possibilities of computer-assisted analysis and to characterize cerebral cortical function of newborns-at-risk. The EEG was computerized by spectral analysis in 9 healthy term newborns and 6 term newborns-at-risk according to the age related patterns. Surprisingly, newborns-at-risk with good outcome show significant higher EEG spectral power than controls. But a secure monitoring is unpossible by bifrontal recordings alone. It was concluded that: 1. the bifrontal EEG recordings should be replaced by at least two interhemispheric recordings for neonatal cerebral monitoring, 2. the pattern-related analysis is necessary and 3. the discontinuous EEG is most suitable to characterize newborns-at-risk.
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D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
Pilotstudie zur Spektralanalyse des bifrontalen EEG bei gesunden und Risikoneugeborenen.