MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

EEG207  2009 Spring – 2010 Summer I

Advanced EEG Skills I

1.

Assist with testing for electrocerebral silence (ECS). (I)

2.

Set up compressed EEG, identifying appropriate patterns. (II)

3.

Assist with video-EEG monitoring. (III)

4.

Assist with ambulatory monitoring set-up and scanning. (IV)

5.

Describe EEG surgical procedures. (V)

6.

Describe brain mapping techniques. (VI)

MCCCD Official Course Outline:

EEG207  2009 Spring – 2010 Summer I

Advanced EEG Skills I

I. ECS Testing

A. American Electroneurodiagnostic Society (AES) Guidelines

B. Differences from other portable recording

C. Pretest requirements

II. CSA (Compressed Spectral Analysis)

A. Instrument/patient set-up

B. Pattern recognition

1. Asymmetrics

2. Burst-suppression

3. Artifacts

III. Epilepsy Monitoring Unit

A. Patient application

B. Implanted electrodes (depth, grid)

C. Cortical stimulation

D. Data reduction

IV. Ambulatory EEG

A. Patient/harness set up

B. Scanning techniques for data reduction

V. EEG in surgery

A. Implantation of recording hardware

B. Corticography for cortical resection

C. Endarterectomy

VI. Brain mapping

A. Patient/instrument set up

B. Data display choices