Closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation. Patient-tailored therapy or undirected treatment?

Background: In multi-drug-resistant epilepsy vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is an efficacious additional treatment to reduce seizure frequency and severity. A recently developed cardiac-based seizure detection (CBSD) algorithm triggers automate stimulation (AutoStim) upon heart rate increases of at l...

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Main Authors: Philipp Spindler, Peter Vajkoczy, Ulf Cristoph Schneider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-03-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751920305648