cEEG at 02:10: degraded, and nobody is in the building

A continuous recording degrades overnight. You have local criteria, a tired nurse, a remote reader and an hour's drive.

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Technical

Neuro ICU, continuous EEG, overnight remote coverage (fictional)

02:10 remote review

Synthetic case. On remote review, six of the array's derivations have degraded over the past 40 minutes. The patient (fictional) is sedated and on continuous monitoring. You are at home, an hour away, and on call.

What a careful tech notices

Rate of degradation matters as much as current state: six channels in 40 minutes is a trajectory, not a snapshot.

First action?

What this case is testing

Objectives and the clinical competencies they sit behind.

Critical-care cEEG maintenance and escalation
Maintains a continuous recording in critical care and escalates per local criteria.
Scope discipline and escalation
Keeps to technical scope and escalates uncertainty promptly and correctly.

Completing a case never changes a competency level. Levels move only on observed clinical performance recorded by a named assessor.

Sources referenced

Version and confidence travel with every mapping.

Employer — cEEG escalation SOP 9.1 · v2.3 · verified

Not sure? Escalate it.

Uncertainty is a finding, not a failure.

If a case leaves you genuinely unsure what your department would do, that is a real answer worth surfacing. Take it to your preceptor, or route the question through expert review.

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