Electroencephalography at the time of Covid-19 pandemic in Italy

Autor: Lidia Broglia, Lorenzo Ricci, Giovanni Assenza, Lara Alvisi, Carlo Andrea Galimberti, Mario Tombini, Jacopo Lanzone, Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, Marilisa Boscarino, Oriano Mecarelli, Laura Tassi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Neurological Sciences
ISSN: 1590-3478
1590-1874
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-020-04546-8
Popis: During the Covid-19 pandemic, government restrictions limited health care to urgent needs. Neurophysiology centers had to suddenly reschedule their activities, with a lack of specific recommendations about electroencephalography (EEG) execution. During the pandemic phase 1, we launched an online survey to understand the flaws and strengths of the EEG management in Italy at the time of Covid-19 pandemic. A 45-item online survey (published from April 16 to 30, 2020), endorsed by the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (SINC), the Italian League Against epilepsy (LICE), and the Italian Association of Neurophysiology technologists (AITN), collected EEG management data (EEG’s number and type, indications, personnel and patients safety, devices’ sanification) during the Covid-19 pandemic. We received responses from 206 centers. The number of EEGs performed was reduced by 76 ± 20%, and several types of specific EEG (video-EEG, ambulatory-EEG, LTM, polysomnography) were reduced at a minimum. Half of the centers performed inpatient EEGs only for urgencies. Repetitive seizures, encephalitis, and non-convulsive status epilepticus were the most common indications. Covid-19-positive patients received less EEG than negative ones (p
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