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Neurologists develop armband that warns of epileptic seizures

The wireless armband detects a possible major epileptic seizure and transmits a warning to a caregiver. [PRNewsfoto/Empatica]

Dutch neurologists have conceived an innovation that aims to warn caregivers remotely of possible dangerous epileptic seizures being experienced by people with epilepsy during sleep including tonic and tonic-clonic seizures.

It aims to prevent the sudden and unexplained death of a person with epilepsy who was otherwise healthy (SUDEP).

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