ArticleNeurology. Clinical practice2023
The Best Seizure Diagnostic Tool Is Not a Medical Device: Why Stand-Alone Video Review Needs a Current Procedural Terminology Code.
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- Is a Video Worth a Thousand EEGs?Epilepsy currents · 2026Article
- Smartphone videos for infantile epileptic spasms triaging and assessment (VISTA study): Impact of education and standardized clinical history on diagnostic accuracy.Epilepsia open · 2026Article
- Diagnostic value of stand-alone videos after inconclusive inpatient EEG-video monitoring.Epilepsia · 2026Article
- Home video review in a pediatric clinical neurophysiology led multidisciplinary team meeting.Epileptic disorders : international epilepsy journal with videotape · 2025Article
- Improving nocturnal event monitoring in people with intellectual disability in community using an artificial intelligence camera.Epilepsy & behavior reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
The diagnosis of seizures and epilepsy is primarily based on the history, but history-taking is fraught with difficulties and has serious limitations, which is one reason for the common misdiagnosis of seizures. EEG is a very useful tool, but routine EEG has poor sensitivity, and prolonged EEG-video monitoring, the gold-standard for diagnosis, is only useful for patients with frequent events. Smartphones are ubiquitous, and their videos are increasingly used as an extension of the history and a diagnostic tool. Stand-alone videos should be considered a diagnostic tool and treated as such, including with a Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code, the American uniform nomenclature for medical procedures, which is used for billing and reimbursement.
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