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Equipment for Filming Seizure Activity
Dear All
I have had a request from a service who are supporting a lady with epilepsy. They have been asked by the individual's consultant psychiatrist if it would be possible to film her for a month in order to observe her seizure patterns with a view to changing her medication and improving her seizure management.
I appreciate that this is an infringment on the individual's privacy and therefore we would need to consider the ethical implications very carefully.
I was wondering if anyone could advise me of a suitable product that could be used for filming. It would need to provide a sufficiently clear image which could be captured either at nightime or during the day.
There may be a need for it to be portable so that it could be used to capture seizure activity during the day when the lady is not in her bedroom.
It would need to have the capacity to capture a significantly large amount of data so that it can be left running and reviewed later.
It would also be useful owing to the finite nature of the trial, if the equipment could be leased rather than purchased outright.
I would really appreciate any suggestions that you might have.
Thanks very much for your help.
Ann Collins
Assistive Technology Project Manager
0117 9528 212
07776 456 755
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Re: Equipment for Filming Seizure Activity
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Dear Ann,
Are her seizures such that you could
monitor frequency of occurrence and duration with body-worn accelerometers and
a data logger? This would be an awful lot easier than trying to keep her “on
camera” no matter where she was during the day and night! It would also
make the ethical issues a little easier to deal with.
Roger
Prof Roger Orpwood
Bath Institute of Medical Engineering
University of Bath
c/o Wolfson Centre
Royal United Hospital
Bath BA1 3NG
01225 824103
From:
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professionals. [mailto:ASSISTECH@...] On Behalf Of Ann Collins
Sent: 22 June 2009 11:09
To: ASSISTECH@...
Subject: Equipment for Filming
Seizure Activity
I have had a request from a service who
are supporting a lady with epilepsy. They have been asked by the
individual's consultant psychiatrist if it would be possible to film her
for a month in order to observe her seizure patterns with a view to
changing her medication and improving her seizure management.
I appreciate that this is an infringment
on the individual's privacy and therefore we would need to consider the ethical
implications very carefully.
I was wondering if anyone could advise me
of a suitable product that could be used for filming. It would need to
provide a sufficiently clear image which could be captured either at
nightime or during the day.
There may be a need for it to be portable
so that it could be used to capture seizure activity during the day when the
lady is not in her bedroom.
It would need to have the capacity to
capture a significantly large amount of data so that it can be left running and
reviewed later.
It would also be useful owing to the
finite nature of the trial, if the equipment could be leased rather than
purchased outright.
I would really appreciate any suggestions
that you might have.
Thanks very much for your help.
Assistive
Technology Project Manager
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The Brandon Trust
Olympus House, Britannia Road
, Patchway, BRISTOL , BS34 5TA
Tel: 0117 907 7200 Fax: 0117 969 9000
Email: info@...Website: http://www.brandontrust.org
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 Re: Equipment for Filming Seizure Activity
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From my limited experience in an acute neurophysiology department, the video data are used to enhance information from the EEG to help identify the involvement of each limb and progression of a siezure during each episode. Without EEG, a number of accelerometers may be required to localise movement from each limb .. which would present some interesting technical challenges!
Graham
Graham Webb
Pre-Registration Clinical Scientist / PhD student
Centre for Biomedical Engineering
University of Surrey
Guildford
SURREY, GU27TE
Tel: +44(0)1483 689350
Mobile: +44(0)7796 866012
Email: G.D.Webb@...
www.bmesurrey.org
From: Roger Orpwood <r.d.orpwood@...>
Subject: Re: Equipment for Filming Seizure Activity
To: ASSISTECH@...
Date: Monday, 22 June, 2009, 12:44 PM
Are her seizures such that you could monitor frequency of occurrence and duration with body-worn accelerometers and a data logger? This would be an awful lot easier than trying to keep her “on camera” no matter where she was during the day and night! It would also make the ethical issues a little easier to deal with.
Roger
Bath Institute of Medical Engineering
University of Bath
c/o Wolfson Centre
Royal United Hospital
Bath BA1 3NG
01225 824103
From: A discussion list for Assistive Technology professionals. [mailto:ASSISTECH@...] On Behalf Of Ann Collins
Sent: 22 June 2009 11:09
To: ASSISTECH@...
Subject: Equipment for Filming Seizure Activity
I have had a request from a service who are supporting a lady with epilepsy. They have been asked by the individual's consultant psychiatrist if it would be possible to film her for a month in order to observe her seizure patterns with a view to changing her medication and improving her seizure management.
I appreciate that this is an infringment on the individual's privacy and therefore we would need to consider the ethical implications very carefully.
I was wondering if anyone could advise me of a suitable product that could be used for filming. It would need to provide a sufficiently clear image which could be captured either at nightime or during the day.
There may be a need for it to be portable so that it could be used to capture seizure activity during the day when the lady is not in her bedroom.
It would need to have the capacity to capture a significantly large amount of data so that it can be left running and reviewed later.
It would also be useful owing to the finite nature of the trial, if the equipment could be leased rather than purchased outright.
I would really appreciate any suggestions that you might have.
Thanks very much for your help.
Assistive Technology Project Manager
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The Brandon Trust
Olympus House, Britannia Road , Patchway, BRISTOL , BS34 5TA
Tel: 0117 907 7200 Fax: 0117 969 9000
Email: info@... Website: http://www.brandontrust.org |
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Re: Equipment for Filming Seizure Activity
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On reflection .. if a patient is having a siezure and used to waking up, it may not matter if a light is turned on. Perhaps a single accelerometer could be used to trigger a light and camera. When the siezure is over, the light and camera go off. This would at least cover the bedroom.
Graham
From: Roger Orpwood <r.d.orpwood@...>
Subject: Re: Equipment for Filming Seizure Activity
To: ASSISTECH@...
Date: Monday, 22 June, 2009, 12:44 PM
Are her seizures such that you could monitor frequency of occurrence and duration with body-worn accelerometers and a data logger? This would be an awful lot easier than trying to keep her “on camera” no matter where she was during the day and night! It would also make the ethical issues a little easier to deal with.
Roger
Bath Institute of Medical Engineering
University of Bath
c/o Wolfson Centre
Royal United Hospital
Bath BA1 3NG
01225 824103
From: A discussion list for Assistive Technology professionals. [mailto:ASSISTECH@...] On Behalf Of Ann Collins
Sent: 22 June 2009 11:09
To: ASSISTECH@...
Subject: Equipment for Filming Seizure Activity
I have had a request from a service who are supporting a lady with epilepsy. They have been asked by the individual's consultant psychiatrist if it would be possible to film her for a month in order to observe her seizure patterns with a view to changing her medication and improving her seizure management.
I appreciate that this is an infringment on the individual's privacy and therefore we would need to consider the ethical implications very carefully.
I was wondering if anyone could advise me of a suitable product that could be used for filming. It would need to provide a sufficiently clear image which could be captured either at nightime or during the day.
There may be a need for it to be portable so that it could be used to capture seizure activity during the day when the lady is not in her bedroom.
It would need to have the capacity to capture a significantly large amount of data so that it can be left running and reviewed later.
It would also be useful owing to the finite nature of the trial, if the equipment could be leased rather than purchased outright.
I would really appreciate any suggestions that you might have.
Thanks very much for your help.
Assistive Technology Project Manager
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The Brandon Trust
Olympus House, Britannia Road , Patchway, BRISTOL , BS34 5TA
Tel: 0117 907 7200 Fax: 0117 969 9000
Email: info@... Website: http://www.brandontrust.org |
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Company Registered in England and Wales Number: 2365487, VAT Registered Number: 752785009
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Re: Equipment for Filming Seizure Activity
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They may be trying to work out if the
attacks are due to epilepsy at all, rather than just record their frequency. A
video of the appearance & behaviour of each attack would be most useful for
answering this question. Linking a continuously recording camera to a
device which identifies each “seizure“ would allow the relevant
events to be recorded permanently, & the intervening parts to be
overwritten. Perhaps you could adapt one of these X -Driven cameras:
http://www.vision-techniques.com/X-Driven.aspx
Stephen Kirker
Consultant in Rehab Medicine
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From: A discussion list for Assistive
Technology professionals. [mailto:ASSISTECH@...] On Behalf Of Graham Webb
Sent: 22 June 2009 13:07
To: ASSISTECH@...
Subject: Re: Equipment for Filming
Seizure Activity
From my limited experience in an acute
neurophysiology department, the video data are used to enhance
information from the EEG to help identify the involvement of each limb and
progression of a siezure during each episode. Without EEG, a number of
accelerometers may be required to localise movement from each limb .. which
would present some interesting technical challenges!
Graham Webb
Pre-Registration
Clinical Scientist / PhD student
Centre for Biomedical
Engineering
University of Surrey
Guildford
SURREY, GU27TE
Tel:
+44(0)1483 689350
Mobile: +44(0)7796
866012
Email:
G.D.Webb@...
www.bmesurrey.org
From: Roger Orpwood <r.d.orpwood@...>
Subject: Re: Equipment for Filming Seizure Activity
To: ASSISTECH@...
Date: Monday, 22 June, 2009, 12:44 PM
Are her seizures such that you could
monitor frequency of occurrence and duration with body-worn accelerometers
and a data logger? This would be an awful lot easier than trying to keep her
“on camera” no matter where she was during the day and night!
It would also make the ethical issues a little easier to deal with.
Roger
Bath Institute of Medical Engineering
University of Bath
c/o Wolfson Centre
Royal United Hospital
Bath BA1 3NG
01225 824103
From:
A discussion list for Assistive Technology professionals.
[mailto:ASSISTECH@...] On Behalf
Of Ann Collins
Sent: 22 June 2009 11:09
To: ASSISTECH@...
Subject: Equipment for Filming
Seizure Activity
I have had a request
from a service who are supporting a lady with epilepsy. They have been
asked by the individual's consultant psychiatrist if it would be
possible to film her for a month in order to observe her seizure patterns
with a view to changing her medication and improving her seizure
management.
I appreciate that this
is an infringment on the individual's privacy and therefore we would need to
consider the ethical implications very carefully.
I was wondering if
anyone could advise me of a suitable product that could be used for
filming. It would need to provide a sufficiently clear image which
could be captured either at nightime or during the day.
There may be a need
for it to be portable so that it could be used to capture seizure activity
during the day when the lady is not in her bedroom.
It would need to have
the capacity to capture a significantly large amount of data so that it can
be left running and reviewed later.
It would also be
useful owing to the finite nature of the trial, if the equipment could be
leased rather than purchased outright.
I would really
appreciate any suggestions that you might have.
Thanks very much
for your help.
Assistive
Technology Project Manager
|
The Brandon
Trust
Olympus House, Britannia Road , Patchway, BRISTOL , BS34 5TA
Tel: 0117 907 7200 Fax: 0117 969 9000
Email: info@... Website: http://www.brandontrust.org
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Registered
Charity Number: 801571
Company Registered in England and Wales
Number: 2365487, VAT Registered Number: 752785009
This information
in this email and any files transmitted with it is confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or organisation to which it
is addressed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the
author and do not necessarily represent those of The Brandon Trust. If you
have received this email in error, please inform The Brandon Trust by reply
and delete all copies that you may possess. If you are not the intended
recipient you should not disclose, copy, distribute or take any action on
the reliance on its contents as these actions are prohibited and may be
unlawful.
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