Critical care EEG

Build a synthetic case, check its description and present it to a learner display.

Learner display

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Opens a second window for a projector or second monitor. Present sends this case; the window then follows your edits unless Hold is on. Reveal shows the answer there.

Lateralized periodic discharges

Synthetic EEG · 256 samples/s · negative up · calibration bars show 50 µV and 1 s.

Running

Marks each discharge, counts them in 10 s and highlights the channels of maximum field.

Supplied case context

Read of this case

Teaching tip

Guided read

Steps you complete

Adaptive moves up one level after two clean reads of a category and down one after an error. From level 1, the read of the case stays hidden until you finish.

Why this works

Worked steps that fade one at a time, from the end backwards, help a novice move from studying an example to reading a case alone (Renkl 2002; Atkinson 2003; Salden 2010). Ticks, the 10-s count and the highlighted channels point to the evidence on the trace (Schneider 2018; Noetel 2021). The primer introduces the key terms first, which keeps the first cases manageable (Mayer 2010). Full references are in the README.

Practice

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Results, export and import

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Accepts EEGSimLab results exports (version 1 or 2). Imported items are merged with this browser's results; duplicates are skipped.

Why this works

Committing to an answer before seeing it, then reading explanatory feedback, improves retention and transfer (Larsen 2009; Pan & Rickard 2018; Van der Kleij 2015). After a short blocked introduction, categories are mixed (Hatala 2003; Brunmair & Richter 2019) and return at growing intervals (Cepeda 2006; Kerfoot 2007). Certainty marks reward honest confidence, and confident errors come back soon (Gardner-Medwin 2019; Butterfield & Metcalfe 2001; Butler 2011). Scores during practice can overstate lasting learning, so delayed warm-up items are reported separately (Soderstrom & Bjork 2015). Full references are in the README.

Answers are hidden in the interface but not secured; this is practice, not an examination. Results stay in this browser unless you export them.

Critical care EEG

Lateralized periodic discharges

Supplied case context

ACNS 2021 reference and glossary

Reference cards

Glossary

About this model

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