A resource for the evaluation of a patient with a first time seizure or seizure mimic. Includes recommended workup and management, including whether to start an AED, as per the AAN guidelines. Includes a differential for seizure like spells.Albin, Catherine S. W....
first seizurelong‐term EEGMRIThis study was undertaken to establish whether advanced workup including long‐term electroencephalography (LT‐EEG) and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides an additional yield for the diagnosis of new onset epilepsy (NOE) in patients presenting with a first...
Conclusions Implementation of the FSC decreased time to evaluation by a neurologist and time to diagnostic workup. Ultimately, total healthcare costs and ambulatory costs increased but ED costs and utilization were reduced. It is our hypothesis that faster access to initial care and diagnosis would ...
Seizure detectionObjectives Earlier studies have shown that short term heart rate variability (HRV) analysis of ECG is a promising biomarker for detection of epileptic seizures. A precise and accurate automatic R-peak detection algorithm is a necessity in a real-time, continuous measurement of HRV,...