Defining the gap between electrographic seizure burden, clinical expression and staff recognition of neonatal seizures

Neonatal seizures are often subclinical, making accurate diagnosis difficult.To describe the clinical manifestations of electrographic seizures recorded on continuous video-EEG, and to compare this description with the recognition of clinical seizures by experienced neonatal staff.Term infants, at risk of seizures, were monitored by continuous 12-channel video-EEG from <6 hours of birth for up to 72 hours. All clinical seizures were recorded by...