Louden Walter
Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton.
Nurs Times. 2004;100(4):36-8.
The significance of what is recorded in an electroencephalogram (EEG) can be easily misunderstood or misinterpreted. Even after years of use, it is still not an exact science. There appear to be many possible uses of the EEG but no clear agreement on its best use. Even its role in assessing the treatment, severity, progress and prognosis of epilepsy is varied. The need to find answers to questions around areas such as severity, treatment, progress and prognosis seems to be detracting from the area that the EEG can provide most help in: the classification of epileptic syndromes.
脑电图（EEG）记录内容的意义很容易被误解或曲解。即便使用多年，它仍不是一门精确的科学。EEG似乎有许多可能的用途，但对于其最佳用途尚无明确共识。甚至它在评估癫痫的治疗、严重程度、进展和预后方面的作用也各不相同。围绕严重程度、治疗、进展和预后等领域寻找问题答案的需求，似乎正在偏离EEG能提供最大帮助的领域：癫痫综合征的分类。
