The role of EEG in the management of epilepsy and the EEG pattern in epileptic children in Jordan

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Aim: This study was done to evaluate the role of the EEG in the management of epilepsy and to look at the EEG patterns in epileptic children in Jordan and to correlate the clinical presentation with the EEG findings.

Patients and Me thod: Our laboratory used the 16 channel, 10-20 international system, electrodes being secured to the scalp by a paste of CaCI, powder, pentonite po\t der and water.

Three hundred EEG's for 300 patients, aged one month to 14 years, were reviewed randomly over a period of one year.

Stimulation measures were over-breatliing and photic stimulation.

Chloral hydrate was used as a sedative.

Results: Erom 171 males (57% of the patients) and 12V females (43%) normal records were obtained from I S3 patients (61%) and abnormal records from 117 (39%).

Of fifty four patients with a suspicious history of seizures 29% showed abnormal records and of246 patients with a typical history of seizures 41% showed abnormal records.

Conclusion: The EEG is a very useful diagnostic tool to support the clinical diagnosis of epilepsy.

It aids the classification of an epilepsy, suggests an etiology and helps to formulate a prognosis.