The value of home video with ambulatory EEG: A prospective service review

Abstract

In our study, home video facilities aided interpretation of ambulatory EEG recordings in approximately one third of patients. Technological advances and familiarity with portable recording devices will improve this figure and patients and their carers should be encouraged to use such facilities when available.

Video ambulatory EEG: A good alternative to inpatient video telemetry?

“…In addition, identification of EEG artefacts without video can be very difficult. We have previously attempted to obtain video recording with ambulatory EEG by offering patients a 'stand-alone' camcorder to use when patients have attacks [3]. This was of limited value as the recording was not continuous, so brief seizures were missed altogether and in more prolonged seizures the initial clinical features were often not recorded.…”

2018 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of syncope

“…In epilepsy, advances are made towards prolonged video and EEG recording in patients' homes. 206,207 For syncope or PPS, experience suggests that the chances of obtaining a video record are higher for PPS than for syncope, which is probably the effect of a high frequency and long duration of attacks in PPS. It is rare for the beginning of events to be recorded.…”

Video telemetry: current concepts and recent advances

“…However, with no concurrent video, it is of much less help in classifying any captured events. Early attempts to combine ambulatory EEG with home video cameras were largely unsuccessful, since these did not offer continuous video recording and often missed the onset of the attack 9. Because home video telemetry has continuous video that is time-locked to the EEG, it opens up inpatient quality video telemetry to all of the patients who cannot, or will not, tolerate a hospital admission and could replace ambulatory EEG.…”