Timing of first event in inpatient long-term video-EEG monitoring for diagnostic purposes.

Background: Long-term video-EEG monitoring (LTM) aims to record the habitual event and is a useful diagnostic tool for neurological paroxysmal clinical events. In our epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) setting, admissions are usually planned to last up to five days. We ascertained time taken for the recording of a first event and determined correlations between different clinical characteristics and timings.