More information about the different speakers and their lectures
Pia De Stefano
Pia De Stefano is responsible for the ICU Continuous EEG Monitoring Unit at the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG). She is a board-certified Neurologist (FMH) and board-certified in Epileptology, Electroencephalography and Neurosonology (SSCN). Pia De Stefano will give 2 talks:
First talk: Electroencephalogram in the Intensive Care Unit. The talk will discuss (1) the definitions of seizures, status epilepticus and patterns in the ictal interictal continuum in the critical care environment; (2) the advantages of continuous EEG compared to routine EEG (3) our experience in Geneva with artificial intelligence in automatically detecting EEG patterns and seizures; (4) the role of EEG for ischemia detection.
Second talk: Neuroprognostication post-cardiac arrest: a multimodal approach and an update on myoclonus and status epilepticus post-cardiac arrest. The talk will discuss (1) the post-resuscitation care Guidelines from the European Resuscitation Council and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine guidelines 2021; (2) the multimodal approach, including biomarkers, electrophysiological, clinical and imaging data, (3) a new terminology proposal on the evaluation of myoclonus post-cardiac arrest; (4) post-anoxic status epilepticus: when to treat, when not to treat.
Erik Westhall
Erik Westhall is senior consultant and associate professor in clinical neurophysiology from Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. Erik will present the prognostic value of EEG in comatose patients resuscitated after cardiac arrest. EEG-patterns for prediction of good and poor outcome using routine EEG and simplified cEEG-monitoring will be discussed. Erik will briefly present the prognostic significance of postanoxic status epilepticus from the EEG perspective.
Nicola Logallo is a a certified neurologist currently working at the semi-intensive care unit of the department of neurosurgery, Haukeland University Hospital. His main expertise is neurointensive care, stroke management and transcranial ultrasound. He graduated in medicine from the University of Ferrara in Italy in 2008 and has been working at Haukeland University Hospital since then. He completed the European Master's in Stroke Medicine in 2017 at the University of Krems, Austria, and the European Master's in Neurointervention in 2022 at the University of Oxford, UK.
Nicola will talk about clinical scenarios where the intensivist can benefit from neurophysiological tests. It will be angled from his perspective as a neurologist who works in a neurosurgical intensive care unit - which means management of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage, head trauma and intracranial tumor. He will also talk about both challenges related to both clinical and logistical aspects of neurophysiological services.
Mathias Barra is a logician and health economist working with priority setting in health care and bioethics at HØKH, Akershus University Hospital and the Department of Clinical Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Oslo. He was appointed to the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board 2023–2027 and served on the expert group on Perspective for Priority Setting in Norway. His main field of expertise spans quality of life-measurement, and the intersection of health economics, priority setting, and bioethics with health policy.
Mathias will introduce some core health economic concepts relevant for priority setting and health technology assessment (HTA). It will be useful to have a basic understanding of the concept of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) before the talk. He will next relate HTA to priority setting in Norway, and give an account of how central policy documents were conceived, justified, and translated into policy and legislation for use in the Norwegian health care system. The talk will end with a few worked examples relevant to the cost-effectiveness of EEG-monitoring.