Evaluating consciousness and awareness during focal seizures: responsiveness testing versus recall testing

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The current International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) guidelines classify focal seizures based on awareness, defined as successful postictal recall of ictal experiences, and exclude the use of responsiveness during seizures for classification. One reason for this exclusion is that responsiveness was thought to not be commonly tested during seizures. Our goal was to determine whether, in at least some settings, responsiveness testing during seizures is relatively common.

Methods

We assessed how often responsiveness and recall were each evaluated in patients with focal epilepsy undergoing surface and intracranial EEG-video monitoring. We performed this evaluation by retrospectively reviewing video recordings from 121 seizures from 48 patients during their stay in

SUBMITTER: Contreras Ramirez V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10042123 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature