Neuromonitoring in Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care

Cecil D. Hahn is a Clinician-Investigator at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and an Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr Hahn has served as Chair of the Critical Care EEG Monitoring Research Consortium, and as President of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and the Canadian Association of Child Neurology. Courtney J. Wusthoff is Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences and, by courtesy of Pediatrics (Neonatology), at Stanford University and Director of Neurocritical Care at Neuro NICU, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, California, USA.

• Part I. General Considerations in Neuromonitoring: 1. Overview of continuous EEG monitoring in critically Ill neonates and children Shavonne Massey and Nicholas Abend; 2. Technical aspects of neurophysiological monitoring Erin Fedak Romanowski and Renee Shellhaas; 3. Logistics of neuromonitoring William Gallentine, Crystal Keller and Brian Livingstone; 4. Nursing considerations in neuromonitoring Kathi Randall and Diane Wilson; 5. Normal neurophysiology, benign findings, artifacts Sylvie Nguyen The Tich and Emilie Bourel-Ponchel; 6. Abnormal EEG in the intensive care unit Jessica Carpenter and Tammy TsuchidaII; Part II. Practice of Neuromonitoring- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: 7. Neonatal encephalopathy Geraldine Boylan and Deirdre Murray; 8. Neonatal seizures due to acute causes Elissa Yozawitz and Ronit Pressler; 9. Neonatal onset epilepsy Akihisa Okumura; Part III. Practice of Neuromonitoring- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: 10. Management of status epilepticus and recurrent seizures Marina Gaínza-Lein, Iván Sánchez Fernández and Tobias Loddenkemper; 11. Screening for seizures in at-risk pediatric patients Adam Wallace and Eric Payne; 12. Monitoring for impending ischemia Ersida Buraniqi and Tobias Loddenkemper; Part IV. Practice of Neuromonitoring- Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: 13. Perioperative monitoring for congenital heart disease surgery Shavonne Massey and Robert Clancy; 14. EEG monitoring in neonates and children undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation Jainn-Jim Lin, Sarah Welsh and Alexis Topjian; 15. Neuromonitoring after cardiac arrest Genevieve Du Pont-Thibodeau, Nicholas Abend and Alexis Topjian; Part V. Cases.

'Drs. Hahn and Wusthoff have masterfully organized and edited this stunning monograph on neuromonitoring in neonatal and pediatric critical care. There is excellent coverage of general and practical considerations with sections devoted individually to neonatal, pediatric, and cardiac intensive care monitoring, and 30+ illustrative cases that are concise, instructive, and integrated into the earlier chapters as exemplars. Strong coverage of quantitative EEG, with side-by-side comparisons to conventional EEG, is especially helpful. This book is a welcome addition of immense value to both trainees and experienced practitioners of clinical neurophysiology and pediatric epilepsy.' Phillip L. Pearl, M.D., Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA