title: Amplitude-integrated electro-encephalography: the child neurologist's perspective.
abstract: Neurologists increasingly recognize that critically ill patients are at high risk for seizures, particularly nonconvulsive seizures, and that neuromonitoring is a useful tool for diagnosing seizures and assessing brain function in these patients. Amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (EEG) is a simplified bedside neurophysiology tool that has become widely used in neonates over the past decade. Despite widespread interest by both neurologists and neonatologists in continuous brain monitoring, amplitude-integrated EEG has been largely ignored by neurologists, forcing neonatologists to "go it alone" when interpreting data from this bedside tool. Although amplitude-integrated EEG cannot replace conventional EEG for background monitoring and detection of seizures, it remains a useful instrument that complements conventional EEG, is being widely adopted by neonatologists, and should be supported by neonatal neurologists.
authors.affiliation: 1Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Hannah C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Glass
authors.forename: Courtney J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Wusthoff
authors.forename: Renée A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Shellhaas
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009462:Neurology; D010372:Pediatrics; D012640:Seizures / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology
keywords: electroencephalogram; epilepsy; hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy; neonatal seizures; neurocritical; neurointensive care; seizure; status epilepticus