Video event data recording of a taxi driver used for diagnosis of epilepsy

Kotaro Sakurai; Junko Yamamoto; Tsugiko Kurita; Youji Takeda; Ichiro Kusumi

doi:10.1016/j.ebcr.2013.12.007

Video event data recording of a taxi driver used for diagnosis of epilepsy

Epilepsy Behav Case Rep. 2014 Jan 24:2:24-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ebcr.2013.12.007. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Kotaro Sakurai¹, Junko Yamamoto¹, Tsugiko Kurita¹, Youji Takeda¹, Ichiro Kusumi¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.

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.

Keywords: Driving; Epilepsy; Video event data recorder.

Publication types

Case Reports