PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Giulia Attard Navarro
AU  - Khalid Hamandi
TI  - Lessons from the video-EEG telemetry unit
AID  - 10.1136/practneurol-2021-003313
DP  - 2022 Aug 01
TA  - Practical Neurology
PG  - 301--310
VI  - 22
IP  - 4
4099  - http://pn.bmj.com/content/22/4/301.short
4100  - http://pn.bmj.com/content/22/4/301.full
SO  - Pract Neurol2022 Aug 01; 22
AB  - Epilepsy is a clinical diagnosis, based primarily on patient and witness histories. Where there is diagnostic uncertainty or when epilepsy surgery is being considered, long-term video-EEG monitoring in a telemetry unit remains the gold standard investigation for diagnostic clarification or presurgical localisation. We present six illustrative cases, highlighting important points that emerged during video-EEG review including potential pitfalls in video-EEG interpretation, and how the investigation helped with diagnosis and subsequent management. The diagnostic process strongly emphasises seizure semiology, more so than EEG.