Guidelines and Consensus Statements

Guidelines

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Title Guideline # Date Revised

Electroencephalography - Introduction
  Minimum Technical Requirements for Performing Clinical EEG 1 Aug. 2016
Guidelines for Standard Electrode Position Nomenclature
[Spanish]		 2 Aug. 2016
Proposal for Standard Montages to be Used in Clinical EEG
[Spanish]		 3 Aug. 2016
Guidelines for Recording Clinical EEG on Digital Media
[Spanish]		 4 Aug. 2016
Minimum Technical Standards for Pediatric EEG
[Spanish]		 5 Aug. 2016
Minimum Technical Standards for EEG Recording in Suspected Cerebral Death
[Spanish]		 6 Aug. 2016
Guidelines for EEG Reporting
[Spanish]		 7 Aug. 2016
Evoked Potentials
  Guidelines on Evoked Potentials 9A Feb. 2006
Guidelines on Visual Evoked Potentials 9B Feb. 2006
Guidelines on Short-Latency Auditory Evoked Potentials 9C Feb. 2006
Guidelines on Short-Latency Somatosensory Evoked Potentials 9D Feb. 2006
Guideline for Writing Clinical Evoked Potential Reports 10 Feb. 2006
Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring
  Recommended Standards for Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring - Principles 11A Oct. 2009
Recommended Standards for Intraoperative Monitoring of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials 11B Oct. 2009
Recommended Standards for Intraoperative Monitoring of Auditory Evoked Potentials 11C Oct. 2009
Evidence-Based Guideline Update: Intraoperative Spinal Monitoring with Somatosensory and Transcranial Electrical Motor Evoked Potentials 15
Joint with AAN		 Dec. 2012
Long-Term EEG Monitoring for Epilepsy
  Guidelines for Long-Term Monitoring for Epilepsy
[Spanish]		 12 March 2008
     
Long-Term EEG Monitoring in Neonates
  Guideline on Continuous EEG Monitoring in Neonates 13 Jan. 2012
Standardized EEG Terminology and Categorization for the Description of Continuous EEG Monitoring in Neonates 16 Dec. 2012
Continuous EEG Monitoring in Critical Care
 

Standardized Critical Care EEG Terminology
[Mandarin]

Learn to use the 2021 Standardized Critical Care EEG Terminology with the Critical Care EEG Monitoring Research Consortium's Training Module

 14 Jan. 2021
Quantitative EEG
  Use of Quantitative EEG for the Diagnosis of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury   July 2021
Technical Standards for Digital EEG Formats
  Technical Standard 1: Standard for Transferring Digital Neurophysiological Data Between Independent Computer Systems TS1 March 2008
Neurodiagnostic Personnel
  Guidelines for Qualifications of Neurodiagnostic Personnel: A Position Statement of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine, the American Society of Neurophysiological Monitory, and ASET - The Neurodiagnostic Society Joint with ASET, AANEM, ASNM March 2023
Magnetoencephalography ACMEGS  
  Clinical Practice Guideline 1: Recording and Analysis of Spontaneous Cerebral Activity Endorsed by ACNS 2011
Clinical Practice Guideline 2: Presurgical Functional Brain Mapping Using Magnetic Evoked Fields Endorsed by ACNS 2011
Clinical Practice Guideline 3: MEG-EEG Reporting Endorsed by ACNS 2011
Clinical Practice Guideline 4: Qualifications of MEG-EEG Personnel Endorsed by ACNS 2011

Consensus Statements

Title Consensus Statement # Date Revised
ICU EEG
  Consensus Statement on Continuous EEG in Critically Ill Adults and Children Part I: Indications 17a Feb. 2015
Consensus Statement on Continuous EEG in Critically Ill Adults and Children Part II: Personnel, Technical Specifications and Clinical Practice 17b Feb. 2015
Evoked Potentials
  Consensus Statement on Transcranial Electrical Stimulation Motor Evoked Potential (TES-MEP) Monitoring 18 Feb. 2016

AAN = American Academy of Neurology
ACMEGS = American Clinical Magnetoencephalography Society

ACNS Guideline Compendium (policies on guideline development, review, revision, etc) - approved March 2023

Please direct all questions regarding these guidelines and consensus statements to info@acns.org.
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