Subclinical Posttraumatic Seizures Detected by Continuous Video-EEG Monitoring

Abstract

Investigators at Mattel Children's Hospital, UCLA, and University of Colorado, used continuous video-EEG monitoring (cEEG) to study the incidence and risk factors for subclinical early posttraumatic seizures (EPTS) in 87 consecutive, unselected (mild – severe), acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients requiring admission to the PICU.

Keywords

• continuous video-eeg monitoring
• early posttraumatic seizures
• traumatic brain injury