Patient Care

Hyperventilation, or fast breathing, as an activation technique during EEG testing can be an important diagnostic tool, especially in pediatrics. But considering COVID-19 and the risks of spreading virus particles, is it still worth doing? We asked the experts.

ASET’s Skin Safety Task Force has fulfilled their mandate and disbanded. The materials they created during their tenure—guidelines for skin safety during EEG, a skin safety course, a video, and other educational resources—help neurodiagnostic technologists create a safer experience for their patients.

New research offers a way to objectively measure depression – one of the most common mental disorders globally – using electroencephalography, opening a world of potential.

Reusable electroencephalography (EEG) cup electrodes have been the default choice for many epilepsy centers concerned about cost. It turns out the risks to patient safety and manpower needed to adequately clean these electrodes might not be worth it in the long run.

New research analyses the EEG data of patients positive for COVID-19 to look for patterns that might be linked to the disease brought on by the novel coronavirus. It has also brought EEG techs into the spotlight.

The recall, of a key product used to attach electrodes to the scalp, was eventually updated but it illustrated a workflow challenge for techs: Their departments aren’t always first in line to receive this kind of important product information.

Electroencephalography plays an important role in diagnosing and treating epilepsy. For children this is especially important because a quick and accurate diagnosis can be crucial in preventing developmental delays and greater lifelong disability.

Skin irritation, and even injury, is all too common in long-term EEG monitoring. New research published in The Neurodiagnostic Journal has zeroed in on some key risk factors that will help EEG techs protect their most vulnerable patients.

Fifty million people around the world have epilepsy and the vast majority live in low-income countries, where the disease is poorly understood there is a huge treatment gap. EEG technologists are dedicated to closing that gap and want you to join the effort.

Needlestick injuries have had a front-and-center role in healthcare for decades since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, but protocols have lagged for those who perform IONM. New research suggests a way to make real progress in safety.

Rates of electrode contamination and patient infection are nowhere near where they should be today. Techs need to read ASET’s latest infectious diseases prevention guidelines, according to author Anna Bonner, who shares some of the more surprising ways techs can keep their patients safe.

The effect of artificial food coloring on EEGs in college students with ADHD was studied and while the results won’t bring consensus about whether it has an effect on ADHD symptoms, it suggests there could be a link.

Every year ASET- the Neurodiagnostic Society sponsors this celebration of NDTs everywhere – and this year’s celebration falls during one of the worst public health crises in modern times. Here’s how ASET is working around that.

Psychogenic pseudosyncope has traditionally been hard to pin down in the face of more physical causes for losing consciousness. A new protocol combines tests across medical disciplines to solve this problem in a new way.

Researchers at a Dallas hospital felt they needed to go beyond standard infection control measures due to the many unknowns and highly contagious nature of the novel coronavirus. Here’s what they did.