S10-4. Role of the medical doctors in longterm VIDO-EEG monitoring
Long-term video-electroencephalography monitoring (LTM) in epilepsy monitoring units (EMUs) is an essential and most meaningful investigation for diagnosis of epilepsy, classification of epileptic seizures and pre-surgical evaluation of patients with intractable localization-related epilepsy. The tapering of antiepileptic drugs is commonly used to record seizures efficiently. However, this practice may expose patients to serious adverse events, such as falls, status epilepticus, psychiatric complication, cardiac events and pulmonary complications.
Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - Category: Neuroscience Authors: Motoki Inaji, Keiko Hara, Taketoshi Maehara Source Type: research