Use of smartphone video can accelerate time to diagnosis and treatment of epileptic spasms in infants, new data suggest.
“Early recognition and treatment of infantile epileptic spasms is associated with better seizure and developmental outcomes,” according to Dr Chethan Rao of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. While video is often used in the clinic to identify spasms, the use of smartphone video in this context has not yet been evaluated.