An ambulatory EEG records over several days rather than in a single session. It involves two appointments at the same office: one to fit the electrodes and recorder, and one days later to remove the equipment and download the recording. The exact duration is set by your neurologist.
An ambulatory EEG records over several days rather than in a single session. It involves two appointments at the same office: one to fit the electrodes and recorder, and one days later to remove the equipment and download the recording. The exact duration is set by your neurologist.
The first appointment is the longer of the two. Electrodes are measured, applied and secured, often with a wrap or netting to hold them in place, and the recorder is fitted. You are shown how to use the event button and the diary. You then go home and live normally while it records. The second visit removes everything and downloads the data. There is no way to compress this into one trip, because the point is the days in between.
The main restriction is keeping it dry: no showering, swimming or heavy sweating. People generally manage with a careful wash. Sleep as normal, because sleep is often when useful activity appears. Keep the diary properly, noting the time of anything that felt like an episode along with what you were doing, since correlating a logged event with the trace is the most valuable result the study can produce. Pressing the button but not noting the context loses half the value.
Because both visits must be at the same office, this is one of the studies where picking the nearer location at the outset genuinely saves you something. Both the Las Vegas and Henderson offices perform ambulatory EEG and each has its own accredited electrodiagnostic laboratory. No sedation is involved at either appointment, so you can drive yourself to and from both.
Clinical Neurology Specialists has been physician-owned since 1998, when Leo Germin, M.D., FAANEM founded it. Five board-certified neurologists and four advanced practice providers see patients at the Las Vegas and Henderson offices, each with its own AANEM-accredited electrodiagnostic laboratory.
Clinical Neurology Specialists is an adult outpatient neurology practice for patients 18 and older. The practice performs no surgery and operates no imaging suite, infusion suite or interventional pain programme, and provides no emergency or inpatient care.
Physician-reviewed. Reviewed by the physicians of Clinical Neurology Specialists — board-certified neurologists, AANEM-accredited electrodiagnostic laboratories, physician-owned since 1998. Reviewed 1 August 2026. This article is general education for adults 18 and older and is not a substitute for a consultation.
Sources and further reading: MedlinePlus: electroencephalogram (EEG); MedlinePlus: epilepsy; MedlinePlus, National Library of Medicine.
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