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Citation

Sakurai K, Yamamoto J, Kurita T, Takeda Y, Kusumi I. Epilepsy Behav. Case Rep. 2014; 2: 24-25.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ebcr.2013.12.007

PMID

25667862

Abstract

A video event data recorder (VEDR) in a motor vehicle records images before and after a traffic accident. This report describes a taxi driver whose seizures were recorded by VEDR, which was extremely useful for the diagnosis of epilepsy. The patient was a 63-year-old right-handed Japanese male taxi driver. He collided with a streetlight. Two years prior to this incident, he raced an engine for a long time while parked. The VEDR enabled confirmation that the accidents depended on an epileptic seizure and he was diagnosed with symptomatic localization-related epilepsy. The VEDR is useful not only for traffic accident evidence; it might also contribute to a driver's health care and road safety.


Language: en

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