Absolute Epilepsy and Eeg Rotation Review: Essentials for Trainees

ISBN-13: 9783030035105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 204 str.

Mona Sazgar; Michael Young Do

Spis treści

PART I: EPILEPSY

 

What is not a Seizure?

Seizures and Epilepsy

Treatment of Seizures

Catamenial Epilepsy

 

PART II: EEG

 

Electrode Placement and Montages

Normal EEG

Normal EEG Variants

EEG Artifacts

Activation Procedures

Interictal Abnormal EEG Patterns

Ictal EEG Patterns

Encephalopathies and EEG

Brain Death and EEG

O autorze

Mona Sazgar, MD

Department of Neurology

University of California, Irvine

Orange, CA

USA

 

Michael Gregory Young, DO

Department of Neurology

Kaiser Permanente

Riverside, CA

USA

Blurb

This book contains the most essential information needed for an epilepsy/ EEG rotation.  Chapters are formatted with bullet points and feature clinical pearls. Concise and easy-to-read, this quick reference provides neurology residents, clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy fellows, and other clinicians with the most critical information in epilepsy and EEG in a simplified, yet comprehensive format. Divided into two sections, the book first covers the diagnosis, characteristics, and treatment of epilepsy.  The second section focuses on EEG placement, procedures, and patterns in various neurological disorders.