Tonic–clonic seizures captured during ambulatory video‐EEG are frequently unreported
Ewan S. Nurse, Jacqueline French, Victoria Wong, Mark Cook · 2026
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Description
Ewan S Nurse and three colleagues check, in 2026, how many full body convulsions patients fail to report during long home video EEG monitoring. Treatment and safety calls lean on seizure diaries, which assume such dramatic events get logged. Their Australian service records from 2018 to 2024 held 130 patients with at least one convulsion caught on camera. Diaries and follow up questions sorted each event as reported or not.
Nearly half the patients missed at least one event, and one in six reported none at all. At the event level, 45 percent of 754 convulsions went unlogged. Sleep raised the odds of a miss, while seizure type did not. Nurse and the team warn that diaries understate convulsive burden, skewing risk advice.
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| CREATOR | Ewan S. Nurse, Jacqueline French, Victoria Wong, Mark Cook |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37334 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |