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01-06-2017 | Original Communication

Use of EEG in critically ill children and neonates in the United States of America

Authors: Marina Gaínza-Lein, Iván Sánchez Fernández, Tobias Loddenkemper

Published in: Journal of Neurology | Issue 6/2017

Abstract

The objective of the study was to estimate the proportion of patients who receive an electroencephalogram (EEG) among five common indications for EEG monitoring in the intensive care unit: traumatic brain injury (TBI), extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), cardiac arrest, cardiac surgery and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). We performed a retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study utilizing the Kids’ Inpatient Database (KID) for the years 2010–2012. The KID is the largest pediatric inpatient database in the USA and it is based on discharge reports created by hospitals for billing purposes. We evaluated the use of electroencephalogram (EEG) or video-electroencephalogram in critically ill children who were mechanically ventilated. The KID database had a population of approximately 6,000,000 pediatric admissions. Among 22,127 admissions of critically ill children who had mechanical ventilation, 1504 (6.8%) admissions had ECMO, 9201 (41.6%) TBI, 4068 (18.4%) HIE, 2774 (12.5%) cardiac arrest, and 4580 (20.7%) cardiac surgery. All five conditions had a higher proportion of males, with the highest (69.8%) in the TBI group. The mortality rates ranged from 7.02 to 39.9% (lowest in cardiac surgery and highest in ECMO). The estimated use of EEG was 1.6% in cardiac surgery, 4.1% in TBI, 7.2% in ECMO, 8.2% in cardiac arrest, and 12.1% in HIE, with an overall use of 5.8%. Among common indications for EEG monitoring in critically ill children and neonates, the estimated proportion of patients actually having an EEG is low.

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Title: Use of EEG in critically ill children and neonates in the United States of America
Authors: Marina Gaínza-Lein
Iván Sánchez Fernández
Tobias Loddenkemper
Publication date: 01-06-2017
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Journal of Neurology / Issue 6/2017
Print ISSN: 0340-5354
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1459
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-017-8510-3

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