Is there a role for routine EEG in the diagnostic evaluation of critically ill comatose patients or should these patients always receive long-term continuous video EEG monitoring?  

We looked into this and found that in a non-comatose patient with no history of clinical seizures, the lack of epileptiform abnormalities on initial 30 minutes of EEG recording is associated with <5% risk for electrographic seizures suggesting that a routine EEG can be sufficient in that group (S...