Consensus statement on continuous EEG in critically ill adults and children, part I: indications

Susan T Herman¹, Nicholas S Abend, Thomas P Bleck+16

• ¹*Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.; †Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; ‡Departments of Neurological Sciences, Neurosurgery, Medicine, and Anesthesiology, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.; §Department of Pediatrics and Neurology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.; ‖Department of Neurology, Hospital for Special Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, U.S.A.; ¶Department of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. #Division of Neurology, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; **Department of Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.; ††Neurodiagnostic Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.; ‡‡Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.; §§Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.; ‖‖Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine and Clinical Neurophysiology, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.; ¶¶FE Dreifuss Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Department of Neurology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.; ##NYU Division of Child Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, U.S.A.; ***Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; †††School of Clinical Neurophysiology, Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Upland, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; ‡‡‡Department of Neurology and Pediatrics, Children's National Med