Temporal Divergence of True and False Alarms in Pediatric Nocturnal Seizure Monitoring
Mohammad Shahbakhti, Anemoon T Bosch, Job van der Palen, Franciscus S Leijten, Johannes P van Dijk, Richard H C Lazeron, Roland D Thijs · 2026
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Description
Mohammad Shahbakhti and six colleagues asked whether false alarms from a children's seizure monitor cluster at certain hours of the night. NightWatch is a wearable armband that watches movement and heart rate to catch major nighttime seizures in children with epilepsy. False alarms wear families down and can breed dangerous alarm fatigue. The team analyzed 2,876 alarms from sixty-five children aged three to sixteen, recorded between evening and morning.
True and false alarms followed clearly different clocks. Nearly a third of false alarms landed in the final stretch, between six and nine in the morning, when children stir and wake. Real seizures spread differently across the night. The authors suggest the device could change its trigger threshold by time or sleep state, tightening up when morning movement fools it most. Such tuning, they argue, could cut false alerts without dulling real protection.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mohammad Shahbakhti, Anemoon T Bosch, Job van der Palen, Franciscus S Leijten, Johannes P van Dijk, Richard H C Lazeron, Roland D Thijs |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 15 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |