[Video/EEG, the epileptic monitoring system]

Seventy-six seizures in thirty-four patients with epilepsy and suspicious of epilepsy were monitored by Video/EEG which was designed and made by the authors and identified by the scientific experts considered to be standard. The average time of each patient monitored was 6.7 hours. The positive record of fifty-six seizures were analyzed: The seizures of twenty-four patients (70.5%) were diagnosed as epileptic in nature; two patients (5.8%), the seizures were due to organic brain diseases and in eight patients (23.5%), they were pseudoseizures. The diagnostic rate for epileptic type was 87.5%. The clinical use of Video/EEG shows that functions of this apparatus has attained the international level as compared with the identical one made in foreign country. It is high qualified with multifunctions and low in price. It can also apply in fields of psychology. Psychiatry, biology and in studying of sleep, respiration etc. Therefore, the Video/EEG which we made is a apparatus suitable for our national condition.