Why do we do EEG? Experience of two years from a new pediatric neurology center

İngilizce (OpenAlex)

Electroencephalography must not be used to exclude epilepsy since epilepsy is a clinical condition or to determine the efficacy of the anti convulsive medication (1).Who made the EEG request, may cause changes in the reasons of EEG request.As pediatric neurologists working in a newly established center, we wanted to evaluate the reasons and results of the EEGs performed in 2 years. Material and methodsElectroencephalographies taken at the Maternity and Children Hospital between June 2018 and June 2020 were evaluated according to the reasons for request, age, gender and EEG results.Electroencephalographies were recorded with an 18channel EEG device (Neurofax QP-112AK ver.07-21Nihon Kohden Corporation).Electrodes were placed according to the 10-20 international system (Bipolar and reference montage).Sleep, wakefulness and sleep + wakefulness EEG recordings were taken after sleep deprivation.Activation methods of hyperventilation and intermittent photic stimulation were done routinely.For both sleep and wakefulness records of at least 20 minutes were taken.The families were given a written document on what to do before the EEG procedure, and their consents were obtained for the EEG procedure. EthicsInformed consent were taken from the parents/guardians of the patients.The study was conducted in concordance with the Declaration of Helsinki-Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects.Ethical approval was obtained from the local Clinical Research Ethics Committee for the study (Date: 09.11.2020,Number: 04). Statistical analysisAll analyses were performed using IBM SPSS (v22.0)package program.Data are expressed as percentiles, frequencies, mean, standard deviation (SD), median, minimum-maximum values.Pearson chi-square test was used for between-group comparisons.Significance level (p value) was determined to be at the ≤0.05 level. ResultsA total of 2021 EEG records were evaluated in the study.