The meaning of character combination for the separation of EEG-data

Summ. Standard EEG risk evaluation works on scoring systems that use differ ent types of questionnaires. Here, an alternative for SIDS (Sudden Infant D eath Syndrome) risk detection is presented that is based exclusively on EEG data which possibly could substitute the procedure of questioning the pare nts and allow a direct qualification of the physiological disposition of th e individual neonate: Using EEG-characters an approved SIDS-case could be d iscriminated as well against the group of "healthy" infants as against the "high-risk-group". The results of this study may confirm the evidence that the EEG analysis can be a promising approach to predict an increased SIDS r isk.