Guidelines and Consensus Statements

Guidelines

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Title	Guideline	#	Date Revised
Electroencephalography - Introduction
	Minimum Technical Requirements for Performing Clinical EEG [Arabic]	1	Aug. 2016
	Guidelines for Standard Electrode Position Nomenclature [Spanish] [Arabic]	2	Aug. 2016
	Proposal for Standard Montages to be Used in Clinical EEG [Spanish] [Arabic]	3	Aug. 2016
	Guidelines for Recording Clinical EEG on Digital Media [Spanish] [Arabic]	4	Aug. 2016
	Minimum Technical Standards for Pediatric EEG [Spanish] [Arabic]	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] Condensed Version Reference Chart EEG Examples 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