(Rosenow et al., 2015) EEGs are also highly specific to diagnosing epilepsy, detecting between 60-90% of IED in patients by the fourth EEG, compared with non-epileptic patients at 0.5-2.5% ...
Yet getting a patient diagnosed with a seizure in the ER or ICU is not easy. It requires an electroencephalogram (EEG), which measures electrical activity in the brain. Getting an EEG can take ...