Posts by Sahar F. Zafar, MD, MBBS
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Guidance for Treatment of Epileptiform Activity in Critically Ill Patients
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers provide evidence that interventions for epileptiform activity in critically ill patients should prioritize those with average epileptiform activity burden ≥10%, be more conservative when maximum epileptiform activity is low, and be tailored to the preadmission profile.
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Peak Epileptiform Activity Burden Linked to Neurologic Outcome in a Range of Hospitalized Patients
When neurologists at Massachusetts General Hospital used a computational neural network to review continuous EEG data on 1,967 medical, neurologic, and surgical patients, peak EA burden, but not the cumulative burden, was independently associated with very poor neurologic outcomes and death.
Biography
Sahar F. Zafar, MD is a neurointensivist and epileptologist. She is the Associate Medical Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Neuroscience ICU, and is the Director of the Mass General Brigham Neurocritical Care Training Fellowship. She completed her Neurology Residency at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, followed by dual fellowships in Neurocritial Care and Clinical Neurophysiology. Dr. Zafar devotes her clinical time in the Mass General Neurosciences ICU, on the Mass General Acute Stroke Service, and is part of the Epilepsy Service. She sees patients in the Mass General Epilepsy Clinic. Her clinical interests include acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, traumatic brain injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage, seizures and status epilepticus in critically ill patients, and long term follow up of epilepsy patients. Her research interests include critical care EEG monitoring, seizures in the ICU, and post ICU discharge health outcomes.
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