Privación de sueño para el estudio electroencefalográficoExperiencia del personal de enfermería
- Sánchez, A.
- Zaldivar, M.
- Padilla, E.
- Morales Chacón, Lillia
ISSN: 1695-6141
Year of publication: 2007
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Type: Article
More publications in: Enfermería global: revista electrónica trimestral de enfermería
Abstract
The electroencephalogram (EEG) is a technique that allows obtaining the registration of cerebral electric waves. One of the modalities of this technique is the sleep deprivation electroencephalogram. This approach is recommended, fundamentally, when by means of a routine EEG, it is suspected that the patient has epilepsy, since it has been showed that 20% of the EEG recording using sleep deprivation shows epileptiform activity no detected with the conventional EEG. It is of great importance the the work of the nurse in the correct performance of this procedure. Also, in this work, a retrospective study (January 2003- May 2006), was carried out taking into account the EEG with sleep deprivation carried out in our department.