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Neonatal Electroencephalography: Normal and Abnormal Eli M. Mizrahi, M.D. Peter Kellaway Section of Neurophysiology Department of Neurology Section of Pediatric Neurology Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital Houston, Texas

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Neonatal Electroencephalography:

Normal and AbnormalEli M. Mizrahi, M.D.

Peter Kellaway Section of NeurophysiologyDepartment of Neurology

Section of Pediatric NeurologyDepartment of Pediatrics

Baylor College of Medicine

St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital andTexas Children’s Hospital

Houston, Texas

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Learning Objectives

• Understand the clinical utility of neonatal electroencephalography

• Recognize normal developmental features of neonatal EEG

• Recognize abnormal features of neonatal EEG and their clinical implications

• Recognize electrographic seizure discharges

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Disclosure Statement• Grant and Research Support

– National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA– NeuroPace, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA

• Speaker’s Bureau– None

• Consultant– Michael E. DeBakey Veteran’s Affairs Medical

Center, Houston, TX, USA– SleepMed/Digitrace Care Services, Houston, TX,

USA• Major Stock Shareholder

– None• Other Financial/Material Support

– None

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Colette Dreyfus-Brisac1916-2006

Neurological and Electroencephalographic Correlative Studies in Infancy. Kellaway, P and Petersen, I (eds). Grune & Stranton, New York, 1964: 186-207.A conference and symposium sponsored by the World Federation of Neurology, Baylor College Medicine, NIH and Houston Endowment, October 2-3, 1963, Houston, TX.

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EEG in Assessment of the Neonate• General considerations

– Role of EEG relative to other testing modalities

– Technical considerations– Issues in interpretation

• Features of the normal and abnormal neonatal EEG

• Application to specific clinical problems

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Neonatal EEG Best Utilized as a Correlative Study

• Infant’s medical history• Recording strategies based upon history and

physical findings• Clinical observation and stimulation during

recording• Relationship of EEG findings to other laboratory

findings• Consultation between neonatologist and

neurophysiologist

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Application of Neonatal EEG in Consideration of Clinical Questions

• Determination of conceptional age• Assessment of diffuse brain injury

– Assessment of presence of brain death• Assessment of focal brain injury• Determination of timing of brain injury• Determination of prognosis• Diagnosis of neonatal seizures

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Technical Considerations

• Electrode application• EEG channel selection• Polygraphic channels

– Respirations– Electrocardiogram– Electro-oculogram– Electromyogram

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Recording Strategies

• Montage selection– Single montage– Inclusion of Cz and other midline regions

• Recording duration• Recording protocol

– Wake/sleep cycles– Suspected abnormal clinical events

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Basis for Interpretation• The normal neonatal EEG undergoes rapid and

predictable changes as a consequence of brain growth and development.

• Abnormalities may be characterized by altered developmental characteristics as well as specific patterns or wave-forms.

• Patterns that are normal at one development stage may be abnormal at another.

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Challenges in Interpretation

• The significance of some features of the neonatal EEG have not been determined.

• Certain abnormal EEG findings in the period immediately following brain injury may be transient– Their significance is related to change over

time– Underscores the need for serial recordings

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Neonatal EEG and Brain Development

• Basic assumption– Brain development proceeds at the same rate

whether the infant is in the nursery or in utero• Cautions

– No intercurrent CNS injuries– Recently challenged by computer-based

analysis

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Trends in Appearance of Neonatal EEG Parallel Brain Development

• Continuity• Synchrony• Waveforms• Wake/sleep cycles

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Continuity• There is a gradual change from a

discontinuous pattern to a continuous pattern

27-28 wks CA

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Continuity• Continuity first appears in wakefulness• Residual discontinuity in sleep, even at term

40 weeks CA

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Developmental Trends of Discontinuity

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Synchrony• Initial period of “hypersynchrony”• Associated with discontinuity

27-28 wks CA

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Synchrony

• Initial period of synchrony– “hypersynchrony”

• Followed by asynchrony• Then gradual return to synchrony on the

two sides– Degree of synchrony increases with

conceptional age

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Synchrony

29-30 weeks CA

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Synchrony

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Discontinuity and Asynchrony

29-30 weeks CA

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Synchrony

40 weeks CA

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Specific Waveforms• Emergence and disappearance of

specific waveforms– Specific character and location– Orderly progress

• “Grapho-elements”• Markers of conceptional age

– Beta-delta complexes: “brushes”– Temporal bursts: theta and alpha– Frontal sharp waves: “encoches frontales”

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Grapho-elements

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Beta-delta Complexes

• Hallmark of prematurity– Slow-wave with superimposed fast frequency

activity• Initially central• Eventually posterior• Onset: 29 weeks C.A.• Disappearance: 38 weeks

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Beta-delta Complexes• First appearance

– Infrequent– Central regions

• Later appearance– Persistent– Temporal-

occipital

• Typically asynchronous and asymmetrical in voltage

29-30 weeks CA

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Temporal Theta Bursts

30-32 weeks CA

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Temporal Alpha Bursts

32-33 weeks CA

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Frontal Sharp Transients• Synchronous, symmetrical• Onset: 34-35 weeks C.A.• Persist through term

36 weeks CA

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Development of Reactivity and Wake/Sleep Cycles

• Changes in EEG activity in response to stimuli emerge at about 33-34 weeks C.A.– State-dependent

• Clear EEG differences between wakefulness and sleep emerge at about 36-37 weeks C.A.

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Normal Features Waves

• There are some waveforms that are considered normal but not specifically considered age-dependent grapho-elements– Bifrontal delta in near-term and term infants

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Bifrontal Delta

38 – 40 weeks CA

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Waveforms of Uncertain Diagnostic Significance

• Midline sharp waves• Rhythmic theta and alpha activity

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Midline Central Theta

40 weeks CA

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Age-dependent EEG AbnormalitiesSuggesting Diffuse vs. Focal Injury

• EEG abnormalities are dependent upon the range of possible activity at a given epoch of age– 27-28 weeks C.A.– 29-30 weeks C.A.– 31-33 weeks C.A.– 34-35 weeks C.A.– 36-37 weeks C.A.– 38-40 weeks C.A.– 41-44 weeks C.A.

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Age-dependent Patterns ofDiffuse Brain Injury

• Prolonged interburst duration 27-28 wks C.A.• Depressed voltage 27-28 wks C.A.• Dyschronism 29-30 wks C.A.• Prolonged generalized voltage

attenuation 34-35 wks C.A.• Absence of sleep cycling 36-37 wks C.A.• Depressed and undifferentiated

background 36-37 wks C.A.• Suppression-burst activity 36-37 wks C.A.• Hypsarrhythmia 41-44 wks C.A

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Dyschronism

• Determination of conceptional age depends upon the presence or absence of certain established developmental milestones characterized by specific EEG features.

• Dyschronism: the finding of developmental features that are inconsistent with age– Other EEG features– Infant’s actual age

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Dyschronism

• External– Developmental

features in all wake/sleep states are immature for stated age

• EEG-age determination correct?

• Clinical-age determination correct?

– Immature EEG features evidence of delayed maturation

• Intrauterine cerebral insult

• Internal– Mixture of

developmental features present in different physiologic states

– Precise determination of conceptional age cannot be made

– Suggests diffuse dysfunction

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Internal Dyschronism

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Depressed and UndifferentiatedBackground

40 weeks CA

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Suppression-Burst Background

40 weeks CA

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Suppression-burst Patterns

• Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy• In-born errors of metabolism

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Suppression-burst Patterns

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Suppression-burst Patterns

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Age-dependent Patterns ofFocal Brain Injury

• Voltage depressionover one hemisphere 27-28 wks C.A.

• Central positive sharp waves 29-30 wks C.A.• Persistent focal sharp waves 31-33 wks C.A.• Electrical seizure activity 34-35 wks C.A.

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Voltage DepressionOver One Hemisphere

40 weeks CA – subarachnoid hemorrhage

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Central Positive Sharp Waves

• Postive rolandicsharp waves

• Initially associated with intraventricularhemorrhage

• Now more clearly associated with sequelae– Periventricular

leukomalacia

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Central Positive Sharp Waves

29-30 weeks CA

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Central Positive Sharp Waves

36 weeks CA - IVH

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Temporal Sharp Waves

• May be present as normal activity• No clear criteria to differentiate normal

from abnormal temporal sharp waves• Consider

– Amplitude and duration– Occurrence– Complexity of waveform– Polarity– Changing states

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Temporal Sharp Waves

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Temporal Sharp Waves

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Temporal Sharp Waves

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Temporal Sharp Waves

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Temporal Sharp Waves

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Temporal Sharp Waves

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Multifocal Sharp WavesFocal or diffuse brain injury?

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Multifocal Sharp Waves

32 weeks CA

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Clinical Utility of Neonatal EEG

• Best utilized in the context of a clinical question– What is the infant’s conceptional age?– Has the infant suffered a diffuse brain injury?– Is there evidence of a focal brain injury?– When did the CNS injury occur?– What is the prognosis?– Has the infant experienced a seizure?

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What is the Infant’s ConceptionalAge?

• When dates are uncertain or there are conflicting data– Head ultrasound– Dates by history– Physical examination

• Neonatal EEG can be utilized to determine conceptional age based upon age-dependent features– Within 2 weeks

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Has the Infant Suffered a Diffuse CNS Injury?

• Features that indicate diffuse dysfunction– Undifferentiated– Depressed and undifferentiated– Suppression-burst– Isoelectric

• Features that suggest diffuse dysfunction– Internal dyschronism– Multifocal sharp waves– Lack of wake-sleep cycling

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Has the Infant Suffered a Diffuse CNS Injury?

• Generalized abnormalities may indicate the degree of diffuse disturbance

• EEG abnormalities, typically, are not representative of a specific neuropathologic process

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Has the Infant Suffered a Diffuse CNS Injury?

• The EEG is typically not utilized in the neonate in the determination of brain death

• Brain death in this age group is a clinical diagnosis

• The time course in the determination of brain death may be longer than in older patients

• EEG data will be more clinically pertinent in relation to prognosis

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Has the Infant Suffered a Diffuse CNS Injury?

• Understanding the timing of the EEG in relationship to injury may be as important as in the interpretation of the findings.

40 weeks CA – day 1 of life

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Has the Infant Suffered a Diffuse CNS Injury?

• Understanding the timing of the EEG in relationship to injury may be as important as in the interpretation of the findings.

4 days later

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Is There Evidence of Focal CNS Injury?

• Persistent focal abnormalities suggest focal structural lesions– Sharp waves– Voltage asymmetry– Focal slow

• Differentiate normal from abnormal transients

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Are Focal Abnormalites Specific To an Underlying Etiology?

• Attempts have been made to correlate focal findings with etiology– Positive central (rolandic) sharp waves

• Initially: intraventricular hemorrhage• Now: periventricular leukomalacia

– Periodic laterized epileptiform discharges (PLEDs)

• Initially: herpes simplex encephalitis• Now: seizure discharges of the depressed brain

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When Did the Injury Occur?

• Most controversial aspect of neonatal EEG interpretation

• Finding of delayed maturation suggests that the injury occurred in utero– Dyschronism

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What is the Prognosis?

• The greater the EEG abnormality, the more grave the prognosis

• Although the initial EEG may be very abnormal the accuracy of prognosis is based upon the evolution of the abnormality– Degree and rate of resolution

• A normal initial EEG reliably suggests a good prognosis– Within first 24 hours

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EEG Features Thought to Have Prognostic Significance

• Developemental assessment• Character of the background activity• Focal features

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Prognostic Value of Abnormal or Absent Developmental Features

• Possible association with neurological impairment (“at-risk”)– Dyschronism– Absence of expected grapho-elements– Delayed maturation in serial recordings

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Prognostic Value of EEG Background Activity

• Association with significant neurological impairment or death– Electrocerebral

inactivity– Suppression-burst– Depressed and

undifferentiated– Prolonged interburst

intervals (pre-term)

• Association with possible neurological impairment– Depressed or

undifferentiated– Non-reactive– Aberrant sleep

architecture

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Prognostic Value of Focal EEG Features

• Association with significant neurological impairment or death– Positive rolandic sharp

waves (>2/min)– Persistent voltage

asymmetry

• Association with possible neurological impairment– Positive rolandic sharp

waves (<2/min)– Multifocal sharp waves

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Practical Considerations

• Know the timing of EEG in relation to suspected injury– Further from the injury with an abnormal EEG

the more likely it is to be persistent• Perform serial EEGs

– Abnormal EEGs early in the course of injury may improve, suggesting an improved prognosis

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Clinical Utility of Neonatal EEG

• Best utilized in the context of a clinical question– What is the infant’s conceptional age?– Has the infant suffered a diffuse brain injury?– Is there evidence of a focal brain injury?– When did the CNS injury occur?– What is the prognosis?– Has the infant experienced a seizure?

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Has the Infant Experienced a Seizure?

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Clinical ImperativesConsequences of Neonatal Seizures

• Immediate– Alternations of

autonomic function• Heart rate• Respirations• Systemic blood

pressure

– Hypermetabolic state– Etiology of underlying

CNS dysfunction

• Long-term– High early death rate– Impairment later in life

• Developmental delay• Neurological

abnormalities• Post-neonatal epilepsy

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Problems of Seizure Recognition

• Timing– Unpredictable in onset– Frequency

unpredictable– Duration is

unpredictable• Self-limited• Intractable

• Clinical Identification– Some features unique

to neonatal period– Recognition may be

difficult– Pathophysiology

differs by seizure type• Epileptic• Non-epileptic

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Classification of Neonatal Seizures

• Methods of Classification– Clinical features

• Predominant clinical behavior• Components of an evolving seizure

– Temporal relationship of clinical features to EEG seizure activity

– Pathophysiology

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Classification of Neonatal Seizures• Relationship of

Clinical:EEGSeizures– Electroclinical

• Focal clonic• Focal tonic• Spasms• Myoclonic*

– Clinical only• Generalized tonic• Motor automatisms• Myoclonic*

– Electrical only

• Clinical Features

– Focal Clonic– Focal Tonic– Myoclonic– Spasms– Generalized Tonic– Motor Automatisms

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Elements of Neonatal EEG in Relation to Seizures

• Technical quality– Adherence to

recording protocols• Clinical history• Duration• Observation• Stimulation

• EEG features– Background– Interictal waveforms– Electrical seizures

• Clinical aspects– Seizure recognition

and characterization

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Interictal Sharp Waves

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Electrical Seizure Activity

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Seizure Duration

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Central Onset of Electrical Seizure Activity

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Temporal Onset of Electrical Seizure Activity

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Frontal Onset of Electrical Seizure Activity

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Midline Central Onset of ElectricalSeizure Activity

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Midline Central Onset of ElectricalSeizure Activity

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Occipital Onset of Electrical Seizure Activity

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Multifocal Electrical Seizure Activity

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Multifocal Electrical Seizure Activity

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Low-Voltage Electrical Seizure Activity

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High-Voltage Electrical Seizure Activity

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Spike Morphology of ElectricalSeizure Activity

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Slow Wave Morphology of ElectricalSeizure Activity

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Slow Wave Morphology of ElectricalSeizure Activity

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Complex Morphology of ElectricalSeizure Activity

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Complex Morphology of ElectricalSeizure Activity

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Complex Morphology of ElectricalSeizure Activity

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Complex Morphology of MultifocalElectrical Seizure Activity

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Migration of Electrical Seizure Activity

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Electrical Seizure Activity Not Associated with Clinical Seizures

• Seizure discharges of the depressed• Alpha seizure discharges• Seizure discharges in infants paralyzed for

respiratory care

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Seizure Discharges of the Depressed Brain

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Alpha Seizure Discharges

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Alpha Seizure Discharges

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Ictal Features of Epileptic Spasms

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Sources of Artifacts that May Mimic Electrical Seizures

• Environmental interference– Electrical interference due to mechanical

devices• Alterations of electrode impedence• Movement-induced artifacts• Endogenous non-cerebral potentials

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Environmental Interference:Mechanical Device – IV Pump

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Environmental Interference:Mechanical Device – ECMO

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Alterations of Electrode Impedence

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Induced by Movement:Mechanical Ventilation

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Induced by Movement:Spontaneous Tremors

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Induced by Movement:Spontaneous Tremors

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Induced by Movement:Patting

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Induced by Movement:Patting

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Endogenous Non-cerebral Potentials: EKG

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Endogenous Non-cerebral Potentials: Sucking

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Endogenous Non-cerebral Potentials: Jaw Tremor

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Endogenous Non-cerebral Potentials: Eye Movements

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Endogenous Non-cerebral Potentials: EMG

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Endogenous Non-cerebral Potentials: EMG with Arousal

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Practical Considerations in the Interpretation of Neonatal EEG

• Consider conceptional age– Parameters of the normal and abnormal EEG

are conceptional age dependent• Consider the EEG in relation to the clinical

problem– Try to address the clinical issues

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Acknowledgements

Peter Kellaway Section of NeurophysiologyDepartment of Neurology Baylor College of MedicineHouston, Texas, USA

James D. Frost, Jr., M.D.Richard A. Hrachovy, M.D.

Peter Kellaway, Ph.D.(1920-2003)

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Clinical ImperativesConsequences of Neonatal Seizures

• Immediate– Alternations of

autonomic function• Heart rate• Respirations• Systemic blood

pressure

– Hypermetabolic state– Etiology of underlying

CNS dysfunction

• Long-term– High early death rate– Impairment later in life

• Developmental delay• Neurological

abnormalities• Post-neonatal epilepsy

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Problems of Seizure Recognition

• Timing– Unpredictable in onset– Frequency

unpredictable– Duration is

unpredictable• Self-limited• Intractable

• Clinical Identification– Some features unique

to neonatal period– Recognition may be

difficult– Pathophysiology

differs by seizure type• Epileptic• Non-epileptic

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Classification of Neonatal Seizures

• Methods of Classification– Clinical features

• Predominant clinical behavior• Components of an evolving seizure

– Temporal relationship of clinical features to EEG seizure activity

– Pathophysiology

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Classification of Neonatal Seizures• Relationship of

Clinical:EEGSeizures– Electroclinical

• Focal clonic• Focal tonic• Spasms• Myoclonic*

– Clinical only• Generalized tonic• Motor automatisms• Myoclonic*

– Electrical only

• Clinical Features

– Focal Clonic– Focal Tonic– Myoclonic– Spasms– Generalized Tonic– Motor Automatisms

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Suppression-burst Patterns

• Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy• In-born errors of metabolism

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Suppression-burst Patterns

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Suppression-burst Patterns

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Interictal Sharp Waves

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Electrical Seizure Activity

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Seizure Duration

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Ictal Features of Epileptic Spasms

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Sources of Artifacts that May Mimic Electrical Seizures

• Environmental interference– Electrical interference due to mechanical

devices• Alterations of electrode impedence• Movement-induced artifacts• Endogenous non-cerebral potentials

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Environmental Interference:Mechanical Device – IV Pump

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Environmental Interference:Mechanical Device – ECMO

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Alterations of Electrode Impedence

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Induced by Movement:Mechanical Ventilation

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Induced by Movement:Spontaneous Tremors

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Induced by Movement:Spontaneous Tremors

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Induced by Movement:Patting

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Induced by Movement:Patting

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Endogenous Non-cerebral Potentials: EKG

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Endogenous Non-cerebral Potentials: Sucking

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Endogenous Non-cerebral Potentials: Jaw Tremor

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Endogenous Non-cerebral Potentials: Eye Movements

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Endogenous Non-cerebral Potentials: EMG

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Endogenous Non-cerebral Potentials: EMG with Arousal

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