Conventional parameters monitored in intensive care units are usually late indicators of neurologic deteriorations; therefore, clinical examination remains the cornerstone of assessing neurologic function and guiding treatment in head injury. In recent years considerable interest has developed in the use of evoked potentials as a possible adjunctive monitoring technique. This paper describes an automated on-line data acquisition system and the signal processing techniques used to acquire and interpret the data.

Date Published: 1 January 1987
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 0858, Signal Acquisition and Processing, (1 January 1987);

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 0858:
Signal Acquisition and Processing
Russell J. Niederjohn, Editor(s)