Types Of Seizures Articles & Analysis
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More than 250,000 people are living with epilepsy in Australia, of which 1 in 7 are having difficult-to-notice absence seizures. Such seizures are different from tonic-clonic (convulsive) seizures, and are typically shorter in length, with a brief loss of consciousness. Even though this type of seizure usually ...
“In 2017, the FDA cleared the SPEAC® System as the first non-EEG physiological signal based seizure monitoring system to identify sEMG signals that may be associated with a seizure,” said Dr. ...
The core of the product is the AI algorithm to detect absence seizures, and upon detection, seizures are automatically signalled and logged and they can be automatically video-recorded too. Different from convulsive seizures, absence seizures are difficult-to-notice, short and the person is not aware of having them. ...
Using the SPEAC-recorded physiologic sEMG and audio data, physicians may quantify and qualify the types of seizure events their patients experience. Approximately one-third of people living with seizures report their anti-seizure medication (ASM) is not adequately controlling their episodes. Knowing the seizure ...
Additionally, the System will alarm to alert caregivers of sEMG signals that may be associated with generalized tonic-clonic (GTC) seizures, the most dangerous seizure type. In a clinically validated, published study, the SPEAC System’s GTC seizure detection algorithm demonstrated equivalent sensitivity with the gold ...