title: Flatliner Notes: Troubleshooting a Faulty EEG Recording or a Case of Preictal Suppression?
abstract: Modern electroconvulsive therapy devices are largely trouble free but will periodically malfunction. We present a systematic approach to correction of a failure in the electroencephalogram recording capability of our Thymatron System IV machine.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, 997 St Sebastian Way, Augusta GA 30912.
authors.forename: Peter B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Rosenquist
authors.forename: W Vaughn
authors.initials: WV
authors.lastname: McCall
mesh_terms: D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004576:Electromyography; D004868:Equipment Failure; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006801:Humans