MOUNTAIN VIEW — June 20, 2018 — Ceribell, Inc. announced that its Rapid Response EEG System provides significant improvement in setup time compared with conventional electroencephalography (EEG) and resulted in a significant net reduction in unnecessary treatments with anti-epileptic medication, according to data published in Neurocritical Care1.
Non-convulsive seizures, including cases of non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE), are common in critically ill patients in emergency departments and intensive care units (ICU). 90% of seizures in the ICU are non-convulsive2 and can only be detected by EEG. Prolonged non-convulsive seizures lead to permanent brain injury, and delayed diagnosis and treatment of NCSE leads to higher morbidity, mortality, and length of hospital stay3. The current guidelines from the Neurocritical Care Society4 recommend that continuous EEG should be initiated within 15-60 minutes of suspected status epilepticus in all patients. However, meeting this guideline has proven to be difficult due to the current limitations of EEG systems. The Ceribell Rapid Response EEG system was developed to address the limitations in EEG acquisition and interpretation.
