Intervention time and adverse events in a canadian epilepsy monitoring unit: An updated audit.

Background: Optimizing patient safety in the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) has become a topic of increasing interest. We performed an audit of our center's new single-floor EMU, assessing intervention rate (IR), intervention time (IT), and adverse events (AEs).

Methods: A prospective study was conducted on all clinical seizures of patients admitted over a one-year period at our Canadian academic tertiary care center's new single-floor EMU.

Do we intervene less and slower in the epilepsy monitoring unit for psychogenic seizures?

Purpose: Individuals with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) can be stigmatized in healthcare settings. We aimed to compare intervention rate (IR), intervention time (IT), and adverse event (AE) rate between PNES and epileptic seizures (ES) in the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU).

Methods: We used a prospective database of consecutive admissions to our centre's EMU between August 2021 and September 2022.