Reduced EEG montage has a high accuracy in the post cardiac arrest setting

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OBJECTIVE: To study if comatose cardiac arrest patients can be assessed with a reduced number of EEG electrodes.

METHODS: 110 routine EEGs from 67 consecutive patients, including both hypothermic and normothermic EEGs were retrospectively assessed by three blinded EEG-experts using two different electrode montages. A standard 19-electrode-montage was compared to the reduced version of the same EEGs, down-sampled to six electrodes (F3, T3, P3, F4, T4, P4). We used intra-rater and inter-observer statistics to assess the reliability of the reduced montage for background features and discharges.

RESULTS: The reduced montage had almost perfect performance for background continuity (κ 0.80-0.88), including identification of highly malignant backgrounds (burst-suppression/suppression) (κ 0.85-0.94) and benign backgrounds (continuous/nearly continuous) (κ 0.85-0.91). We found substantial performance for identifying rhythmic/periodic discharges (κ 0.79-0.86). The reduced montage had high accuracy for assessment of both highly malignant (sensitivity 91-95%, specificity 94-99%) and benign (sensitivity 89-98%, specificity 91-96%) backgrounds, and periodic/rhythmic patterns (sensitivity 79-100%, specificity 89-99%), compared to the full montage. The inter-observer variability was not increased by the reduced montage.

CONCLUSION: Reduced EEG had high performance for classifying important background and discharge patterns in this post cardiac arrest cohort.

SIGNIFICANCE: Our results support the use of reduced EEG-montage for monitoring comatose cardiac arrest patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:131

Enthalten in:

Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology - 131(2020), 9 vom: 21. Sept., Seite 2216-2223

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Backman, Sofia [VerfasserIn]
Cronberg, Tobias [VerfasserIn]
Rosén, Ingmar [VerfasserIn]
Westhall, Erik [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cardiac arrest
Coma
EEG monitoring
Journal Article
Montage
Postanoxic encephalopathy
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 25.05.2021

Date Revised 25.05.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.clinph.2020.06.021

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312872852