Human bedside evaluation versus automatic responsiveness testing in epilepsy (ARTiE)

Autor: Rebecca J Khozein, Jennifer Dente, Ashley Pacelli, Adithya Sivaraju, William C. Chen, Emily Katzenstein, Lawrence J. Hirsch, Yang Si, Rachel Lilenbaum, Courtney Cunningham, George Touloumes, Hal Blumenfeld, Eric H. Grover, Leah M Gober, Elliot Morse, Emily Johnson
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Epilepsia. 57(1)
ISSN: 1528-1167
Popis: Evaluation of behavioral impairment during epileptic seizures is critical for medical decision making, including accurate diagnosis, recommendations for driving, and presurgical evaluation. We investigated the quality of behavioral testing during inpatient video-electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring at an established epilepsy center, and introduce a technical innovation that may improve clinical care. We retrospectively reviewed video-EEG data from 152 seizures in 33 adult or pediatric patients admitted for video-EEG monitoring. Behavioral testing with questions or commands was performed in only 50% of seizures ictally, 73% of seizures postictally, and 80% with either ictal or postictal testing combined. Furthermore, the questions or commands were highly inconsistent and were performed by nonmedical personnel in about one fourth of cases. In an effort to improve this situation we developed and here introduce Automatic Responsiveness Testing in Epilepsy (ARTiE), a series of video-recorded behavioral tasks automatically triggered to play in the patient's room by computerized seizure detection. In initial technical testing using prerecorded or live video-EEG data we found that ARTiE is initiated reliably by automatic seizure detection. With additional clinical testing we hope that ARTiE will succeed in providing comprehensive and reliable behavioral evaluation during seizures for people with epilepsy to greatly improve their clinical care.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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