Long-term video-EEG monitoring is a diagnostic technique used in certain patients with epilepsy or seizures. It involves the inpatient hospitalization of the patient for a period of time, typically several days, during which they are continuously monitored and recorded with a video camera and an electroencephalograph. The recording is periodically monitored and analyzed by a neurologist, typically one trained in clinical neurophysiology; the neurologist determines when the monitoring is finished and issues the final report.
The purposes of long-term video-EEG monitoring include:
*Discovering where in the brain a given person's seizures begin.
*Distinguishing epileptic seizures from non-epileptic seizures.
*Evaluating a person who is a candidate for surgery to treat epilepsy.
*Quantifying how many seizures a patient has during a given time.
