Monitoring seizures with long-term video-electroencephalography (EEG) in the epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) is one of the most useful diagnostic tools in the epileptologist’s armamentarium. While clinically useful and largely safe, this procedure is not risk-free. Adverse events reported by epilepsy centers include falls, status epilepticus, postictal psychosis, fractures, infections, and the most feared complication, sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) [1]. A large retrospective study noted a SUDEP risk of 1.2 per 10,000 inpatient video-EEG monitoring admissions [2].
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