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cord-355898-hlkwwaqe	Grippo, Antonello	Electroencephalography during SARS-CoV-2 outbreak: practical recommendations from the task force of the Italian Society of Neurophysiology (SINC), the Italian League Against Epilepsy (LICE), and the Italian Association of Neurophysiology Technologists (AITN)	2020-07-21		.txt	text/plain	3948	199	37	METHODS: Presidents of SINC, LICE, and AITN endorsed three members per each society to formulate recommendations: classification of the degree of urgency of EEG clinical indications, management and behavior of physicians and neurophysiology technologists, hygiene and personal protection standards, and use of technical equipment. the neurological specialist assesses the clinical need and establishes the appropriate timing of all EEG studies in COVID+/COVID-uncertain patients, in collaboration with the team of clinicians involved in direct care; if the NPT staff is limited, the neurological specialist assesses the appropriateness of all EEG requests, regardless of COVID-19 status; the possibility of performing a prolonged EEG recording rather than repeated standard EEG examinations (20-30 min) is examined beforehand, depending on the request, in order to reduce overall NPT efforts and the contact time of COVID+/COVID-uncertain patients; the usefulness/necessity of standard activation procedures, particularly hyperventilation, is carefully assessed in the individual case.	./cache/cord-355898-hlkwwaqe.txt	./txt/cord-355898-hlkwwaqe.txt