EEG tests are vastly undersupplied throughout the US, and globally it’s worse. This is due to a lack of readily available hardware, which is already operated on dated technology and equipment. The shortage is exacerbated by a lack of trained and qualified medical staff to administer and then interpret the results of the EEG tests.
These patients include people of all ages: TBIs and head traumas arriving in ICUs and EDs as well as suffers of epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, dementia, strokes, seizures, sleeping disorders, migraines, and encephalitis.