Contactless Sensors Supplement Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring

Researchers at a German university hospital conducted ethnographic fieldwork between November 2021 and January 2022, observing 40 pediatric EEG procedures and convening a six-person focus group. They identified psychosocial, medical, and organizational challenges in standard monitoring and found clinicians viewed contactless sensor technologies, including radar-based heart-rate monitoring, as a promising low-burden supplement for continuous long-term seizure surveillance. Findings inform needs-based implementation of such technologies.