Grand Rounds – Using Quantitative EEG to Improve Neurologic Critical Care

Christa B. Swisher, MD

Assistant Professor, Divisions of Neurocritical Care and Clinical Neurophysiology
Medical Director – Neuroscience Clinical Research Organization (NCRO)
Program Director – Neurocritical Care Fellowship
Department of Neurology – Duke University Medical Center

Objectives:

1. Appreciate the basics of critical care quantitative EEG (qEEG) trends.
2. Understand various ways qEEG can be utilized in the Neuro ICU for seizure detection, ischemia detection, burst suppression monitoring and prognosis after cardiac arrest.
3. Discuss potential future applications of ICU qEEG, such as spreading depression detection.

Location: MacNider 321
Thursday, November 16, 2017, 8:00 AM

Sponsored by the School of Medicine of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.