Monitoring cerebral function: clinical experience with new device for continuous recording of electrical activity of brain.
A device, the cerebral function monitor, provides a continuous record of the electrical activity of the brain occurring at frequencies from 2 to 15 Hz. It is relatively cheap, portable, and easy to use and interpret. The apparatus has proved of value in three circumstances: firstly, when the cerebral circulation is likely to be vulnerable during open heart surgery; secondly, as a measure of recovery or deterioration following brain damage or drug overdose; and thirdly, where information about more physiological changes in cerebral function is required, for instance when testing anaesthetic and hypnotic drugs.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005112:Extracorporeal Circulation; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007022:Hypotension / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D012895:Sleep, REM; D014693:Ventricular Fibrillation / Q000503:physiopathology