TY - JOUR T1 - Lessons from the video-EEG telemetry unit JF - Practical Neurology JO - Pract Neurol SP - 301 LP - 310 DO - 10.1136/practneurol-2021-003313 VL - 22 IS - 4 AU - Giulia Attard Navarro AU - Khalid Hamandi Y1 - 2022/08/01 UR - http://pn.bmj.com/content/22/4/301.abstract N2 - 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. ER -