Book chapter
EEG report
Making Sense of the Pediatric EEG, pp.333-350
CRC Press
2024
DOI: 10.1201/b23339-13
Abstract
Once an electroencephalogram (EEG) has been read and interpreted, a report must be generated to communicate the results to other providers. The EEG report should ideally summarize the electroencephalographic findings concisely, but with sufficient detail to allow another electroencephalographer to "visualize" the main findings and draw their own conclusions without seeing the EEG tracing. It should include sufficient information to identify the patient, some clinical background, and the conditions under which the recording was performed. It also must contain interpretation, framed to allow other providers without specific knowledge of electroencephalography to understand the study's significance. An EEG report typically consists of five main components: technical description, history, EEG description, impression, and clinical correlation. The electroencephalographer's impression of the tracing is included as a reference to the physician who requested the test. It should objectively summarize the findings in such a way that another provider can understand the report, even without specific training in electroencephalography.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- EEG report
- Creators
- Brittany SpriggMaria Augusta Montenegro
- Contributors
- Maria Augusta Montenegro (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Making Sense of the Pediatric EEG, pp.333-350
- Publisher
- CRC Press; Boca Raton, FL
- DOI
- 10.1201/b23339-13
- Number of pages
- 18
- Alternative title
- EEG report
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2024
- Academic Unit
- Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Neurology (Pediatrics)
- Record Identifier
- 9984701642102771
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