• Clin Neurophysiol · Feb 2016

    Rhythmic and periodic EEG patterns of 'ictal-interictal uncertainty' in critically ill neurological patients.

    • Johannes P Koren, Johannes Herta, Susanne Pirker, Franz Fürbass, Manfred Hartmann, Tilmann Kluge, and Christoph Baumgartner.
    • Karl Landsteiner Institute for Clinical Epilepsy Research and Cognitive Neurology, 2nd Neurological Department, General Hospital Hietzing with Neurological Center Rosenhügel, Vienna, Austria.
    • Clin Neurophysiol. 2016 Feb 1; 127 (2): 1176-1181.

    ObjectivesTo study periodic and rhythmic EEG patterns classified according to Standardized Critical Care EEG Terminology (SCCET) of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and their relationship to electrographic seizures.MethodsWe classified 655 routine EEGs in 371 consecutive critically ill neurological patients into (1) normal EEGs or EEGs with non-specific abnormalities or interictal epileptiform discharges, (2) EEGs containing unequivocal ictal EEG patterns, and (3) EEGs showing rhythmic and periodic EEG patterns of 'ictal-interictal uncertainty' (RPPIIIU) according to SCCET.Results313 patients (84.4%) showed normal EEGs, non-specific or interictal abnormalities, 14 patients (3.8%) had EEGs with at least one electrographic seizure, and 44 patients (11.8%) at least one EEG containing RPPIIIU, but no EEG with electrographic seizures. Electrographic seizures occurred in 11 of 55 patients (20%) with RPPIIIU, but only in 3 of 316 patients (0.9%) without RPPIIIU (p⩽0.001). Conversely, we observed RPPIIIU in 11 of 14 patients (78.6%) with electrographic seizures, but only in 44 of 357 patients (12.3%) without electrographic seizures (p⩽0.001).ConclusionsOn routine-EEG in critically ill neurological patients RPPIIIU occur 3 times more frequently than electrographic seizures and are highly predictive for electrographic seizures.SignificanceRPPIIIU can serve as an indication for continuous EEG recordings.Copyright © 2015 International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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