Utility and safety of epilepsy monitoring unit in an inpatient psychiatric setting in Japan.

ABSTRACT: An epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) with long-term video electroencephalographic monitoring (LTVEM) was launched in our psychiatric ward to facilitate close examination of patients with epilepsy and offer hospital experience to psychiatrists unfamiliar with epilepsy care in Japan. This study aimed to examine the usefulness and safety of the EMU in an inpatient psychiatric setting in Japan by retrospectively reviewing the clinical notes of EMU admission cases in the psychiatric ward of the University of Tokyo Hospital between August 2014 and March 2020. The usefulness of the EMU was evaluated in terms of 1) habitual seizure recordings, 2) change in diagnosis, 3) frequency of epileptic seizures, and 4) surgical cases after EMU admission, and 5) EMU safety. Habitual events were recorded during

SUBMITTER: Taniguchi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11869953 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature