- Docente: Fernando Blasioli
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/48
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Neurophysiopathology techniques (cod. 8482)
-
from Oct 24, 2023 to Nov 07, 2023
Learning outcomes
Acquires the knowledge and ability to understand neurophysiological recording techniques in ICU setting and in brain death.
Course contents
Definition of ICU. Confirmation of death with neurological criterion and evolution of Italian legal framework regulation. Law 11 April 2008 containing the modalities for certification of death. Definition of coma, Glasgow scale. Digital EEG. cEEG. Artifacts in intensive care. Analyses of EEG tracings and evoked potentials performed in intensive care. Hand hygiene and use of gloves. Group work, simulation of the death assessment procedure.
Readings/Bibliography
Handbook of ICU EEG Monitoring
Suzette M. LaRoche, Hiba Arif Haider
second edition, Demos medical 2018
American Clinical Neurophysiology Society's Standardized Critical Care EEG Terminology: 2021 Version. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology 38(1):p 1-29, January 2021. | DOI: 10.1097/WNP.0000000000000806
Teaching methods
Frontl lessons. Interactive reading of EEGs.
Assessment methods
Joint exam with the other modules of the integrated course:
84657 Techniques in Neurophysiology Recording in Critical Care and Brain Death (C.I.)
Teaching tools
Handouts and documentation on recommendations, guidelines and regulations.
Office hours
See the website of Fernando Blasioli