The value of the electroencephalogram in brain diseases
EEG has certain diagnostic value for brain diseases, but it is limited by many conditions, so it cannot be the only basis for diagnosis in most cases, but needs to…
Category: Electroencephalogram
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The role of the electroencephalogram in the diagnosis of epilepsy
June 28 is the International Epilepsy Care Day, and this year’s theme is “Doctors and Patients Working Together to Overcome Epilepsy”. Currently, there are about 60 million epilepsy patients in…
Do you have to energize the EEG?
In order to diagnose a disease in a patient’s brain, doctors often give an EEG. When you do an EEG, do you have to energize the brain? Actually, it is…
Do you need to stop your antiepileptic drugs before getting an EEG?
The purpose of EEG is to clarify the diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, when routine EEG is performed on patients taking antiepileptic drugs, drugs should not normally be reduced or discontinued…
Why is it that sometimes epileptic patients have a normal EEG?
Electroencephalogram (EEG) is of great value for the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of epilepsy, and is an indispensable auxiliary examination for the diagnosis of epilepsy. However, about 5-20% of epileptic…
Should a person with epilepsy stop taking their medication before having an EEG?
Some patients are asked by the hospital to stop their medication before the EEG test, but some patients are not allowed to stop their medication. Whether epileptic patients should stop…
Why do people with epilepsy need an EEG?
Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a graph obtained by amplifying and recording the spontaneous biological potentials of the brain from the scalp by means of an instrument. EEG should be performed in…
Considerations for long-range EEG monitoring
Long-range EEG monitoring is not necessary in the routine work of clinical epilepsy diagnosis and treatment, but is essential when the diagnosis is in doubt and for preoperative localization assessment.…
Why epileptic patients should have videotaped EEGs
Video EEG is a combination of video technology and EEG technology, in which the EEG is recorded while video monitoring is performed, and the two are recorded simultaneously. It is…
Newborn Hearing Screening Steps
1. Parents need to calm the baby first, so that the baby is in a quiet state, and keep his/her breathing steady; 2. The baby’s position can be in the…