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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2017 Apr;18(4):363–369. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000001099

Table 1.

Sensitivity, Specificity, Negative Predictive Value and Positive Predictive Value of PCC Providers at Detecting Seizures Using aEEG and aEEG+CDSA.

aEEG aEEG+CDSA
200 questions (n= 2300) Seizure on cEEG No Seizure on cEEG Seizure on cEEG No Seizure on cEEG
Seizure on 495 579 502 530
aEEG/aEEG+CDSA
No Seizure on 150 1076 141 1126
aEEG/aEEG+CDSA
Measure Value Exact 95%CI Value Exact 95%CI
Sensitivity 77% 75–80% 78% 74–81%
Specificity 65% 63–67% 68% 66–71%
Negative predictive value 88% 86–90% 89% 87–91%
Positive predictive value 46% 43–49% 49% 46–52%

aEEG; amplitude-integrated EEG, CDSA; color density spectral array, cEEG; conventional electroencephalogram