Title :
Wireless Brain Monitoring in the Emergency Department
Author :
Bastani, Aveh ; Kayyali, Hani ; Schmidt, Robert N. ; Qadir, Rizwan ; Manthena, Prasanth
Author_Institution :
Troy Beaumont Hospital, MI
Abstract :
Most hospitals in the world do not perform electroencephalograms in the emergency departments due to space, cost, training, and complexity of the equipment and the test. New miniature, low-cost, simple, digital, wireless EEG machines have been developed that solve all four of these inhibiting factors to allow EEG, to be used in emergency departments to evaluate patients presenting with altered mental status for nonconvulsive seizures. Four-channel wireless EEG used in the ED is feasible, provides good quality screening EEGs, and was able to diagnose underlying seizures or slowing in a significant number of patients
Keywords :
Internet; electroencephalography; patient monitoring; telemedicine; altered mental status; electroencephalograms; emergency department; nonconvulsive seizures; wireless brain monitoring; Biomedical monitoring; Costs; Delay; Electroencephalography; Hospitals; Medical diagnostic imaging; Patient monitoring; Performance evaluation; Personnel; Testing; Brain Waves; EEG; Electroencephalogram; Emergency Department; Nonconvulsive Seizures;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8741-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616977
