Medical Specialty:
Sleep Medicine
Sample Name: Video EEG
Description: This is a 43-year-old female with a history of events concerning for seizures. Video EEG monitoring is performed to capture events and/or identify etiology.
(Medical Transcription Sample Report)
TIME SEEN: 0734 hours and 1034 hours.
TOTAL RECORDING TIME: 27 hours 4 minutes.
PATIENT HISTORY: This is a 43-year-old female with a history of events concerning for seizures. Video EEG monitoring is performed to capture events and/or identify etiology.
VIDEO EEG DIAGNOSES
1. AWAKE: Normal.
2. SLEEP: No activation.
3. CLINICAL EVENTS: None.
DESCRIPTION: Approximately 27 hours of continuous 21-channel digital video EEG monitoring was performed. The waking background is unchanged from that previously reported. Hyperventilation produced no changes in the resting record. Photic stimulation failed to elicit a well-developed photic driving response.
Approximately five-and-half hours of spontaneous intermittent sleep was obtained. Sleep spindles were present and symmetric.
The patient had no clinical events during the recording.
CLINICAL INTERPRETATION: This is normal video EEG monitoring for a patient of this age. No interictal epileptiform activity was identified. The patient had no clinical events during the recording. Clinical correlation is required.
Keywords: sleep medicine, electroencephalography, eeg monitoring, video eeg, seizures, eeg,
