Epilepsy is a common brain disease, with an estimate prevalence of   1-2% in the society. Almost 35% of epileptic patients suffer from treatment resistance, and they need specialized examinations, which is one of the brain monitoring tasks for surgery. Also there are another type of patients with suspicious convulsive movements, there is a possibility of psychogenic seizures for them, and brain monitoring for definite diagnosis is needed.

Considering that, the high percentage of patients have drug-resistant epilepsy and more probably complications occurred for these patients. Therefore, special attention and careful examination in order to control convulsions is considered as essential and vital for them. Accordingly, these patients have drug-resistant treatment, and the other treatment methods are required for them in order to control convulsions.

The long-term video-EEG monitoring (LTM) is using worldwide currently, as an important diagnostic tool for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. LTM, or long-term monitoring with video and EEG, is a method to provide the location of the epileptic focus in patients by recording the EEG for several days along with the video seizure attacks recording. Epilepsy could be controlled effectively due to determining the epileptic focus in patient also the surgery of lesion cussing seizures. Almost, epilepsy surgery leads to the complete recovery of patients, discontinuation of anti-epileptic drug treatment, therefore reducing the side effects of long-term medicines using, the risk of repeating seizures attacking and finally improving the quality of patient's life in many cases.

According to the lack of LTM facilities in Kermanshah, patients with drug-resistant epilepsy inevitably went to other cities such as Tehran and Isfahan to undergo LTM after passing long waiting time and suffering many hardships, despite the possibility of epilepsy surgery in Iran, In recent years. For the first time, the Farabi Hospital in Kermanshah and neighboring provinces, has established an Epilepsy Monitoring Unit in order to perform LTM, in 2018. So that the patients with epilepsy and their families benefit from the world latest diagnostic and treatment facilities, and their pains and hardships reduce.

Epilepsy Monitoring Unit- Kermanshah Farabi Hospital

patients under the supervision of a neurologist (epilepsy fellowship), experienced and trained nursing staff are hospitalized for several days in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit of Farabi Hospital. Permanent brain scans and recording of seizure attacks are performed for them during this period, finally, the patients are discharged from the hospital with drug treatment. The medical team determines the center of the seizure with examining the findings of the patients during hospitalization, and then a decision will be made regarding the epilepsy surgery of the patients in the presence of the patient and her/his family.

We hoped, a services could be provided for patients with epilepsy and their families by providing the necessary facilities with the latest diagnostic and treatment methods for epilepsy.