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Seizures in newborns can be detected with bedside brain-activity monitors

07.02.2008 | 7:12:00 pm | Posted by Medical News
Compact, bedside brain-activity monitors detected most seizures in at-risk infants, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed. That means the compact units could assist clinicians in monitoring for electrical seizures until confirmation with conventional EEG (electroencephalography), the researchers assert in an article published in the June issue of Pediatrics....
 
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