Overview
- Neurology staff at Hospital Álvaro Cunqueiro in Vigo report following more than 1,500 people with epilepsy and operating a dedicated video‑EEG monitoring room for complex cases.
- Galicia’s CHUS hospital serves as a national CSUR reference center for drug‑resistant epilepsy, offering surgical and neuromodulation options when medications fail.
- Health guidance stresses practical first aid during seizures: protect from injury, do not put objects in the mouth, place the person on their side after convulsions, time the episode, and seek urgent care for first events, prolonged crises, repeats, or injuries.
- WHO and PAHO estimate about 50 million people live with epilepsy worldwide, including roughly 5 million in the Americas, with Spain nearing 500,000 affected and thousands of new diagnoses each year.
- Clinicians note diverse causes and triggers and remind that photosensitive epilepsy is uncommon, a risk that led to media‑safety rules such as the Harding Test after the 1997 Pokémon incident in Japan.