Deans' stroke musings: The prognostic utility of electroencephalography in stroke recovery: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, June 23, 2022

The prognostic utility of electroencephalography in stroke recovery: A systematic review and meta-analysis

PROGNOSTICATION DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO GET PATIENTS RECOVERED. Will you please do some useful research? I'd have you all fired.

The prognostic utility of electroencephalography in stroke recovery: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (NNR) , Volume 36(4-5) , Pgs. 255-268.

NARIC Accession Number: J88715. What's this?
ISSN: 1545-9683.
Author(s): Vatinno, Amanda A.; Simpson, Annie; Ramakrishnan, Viswanathan; Bonilha, Heather S.; Bonilha, Leonardo; Seo, Na Jin.
Publication Year: 2022.
Number of Pages: 14.

Abstract:

Study examined the evidence for the prognostic utility of electroencephalography (EEG) in stroke recovery. EEG provides a direct measure of the functional neuroelectricactivity in the brain that forms the basis for neuroplasticity and recovery, and thus may increase prognostic ability. PubMed (Medline), Scopus, and CINAHL electronic databases were searched for peer-reviewed journal articles that examined the relationship between EEG and subsequent clinical outcome(s) in stroke. Seventy-five articles met the inclusion criteria and were synthesized for the systematic review. Two independent researchers extracted data for synthesis. Linear meta-regressions were performed across subsets of papers with common outcome measures to quantify the association between EEG and outcome. Association between EEG and clinical outcomes was seen not only early post-stroke, but more than 6 months post-stroke. The most studied prognostic potential of EEG was in predicting independence and stroke severity in the standard acute stroke care setting. The meta-analysis showed that EEG was associated with subsequent clinical outcomes measured by the Modified Rankin Scale, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, and Fugl-Meyer Upper Extremity Assessment. EEG improved prognostic abilities beyond prediction afforded by standard clinical assessments. However, the EEG variables examined were highly variable across studies and did not converge. Findings indicate that EEG shows potential to predict post-stroke recovery outcomes. However, evidence is largely explorative, primarily due to the lack of a definitive set of EEG measures to be used for prognosis.
Descriptor Terms: BRAIN, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, LITERATURE REVIEWS, MOBILITY, MOTOR SKILLS, OUTCOMES, PREDICTION, REHABILITATION, STROKE.

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Citation: Vatinno, Amanda A., Simpson, Annie, Ramakrishnan, Viswanathan, Bonilha, Heather S., Bonilha, Leonardo, Seo, Na Jin. (2022). The prognostic utility of electroencephalography in stroke recovery: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (NNR) , 36(4-5), Pgs. 255-268. Retrieved 6/23/2022, from REHABDATA database.