This was my first EEG.  I was told about the procedure do's and don'ts on the phone during my scheduling.  However there was no written instructions placed in LiveWell to refresh my understanding prior to the procedure.  How hard is it to put written instructions in LiveWell?   I also could not fall asleep during the procedure to set a baseline for monitoring a future neurologic episode.  The main reason was that the testing room was not soundproof where every nurse and patient that came into the suite was talking and carrying on their normal conversations.  Secondly the monitoring equipment had an extremely noisy fan.  For a test like this the equipment needs to be in another soundproof room so the there is silence for a person to sleep as the test requires.  Finally, my head was not resting on a pillow, but rather it felt hard like a rolled up towel.  The pressure points on the back of my head was uncomfortable to the point of being somewhat painful on one side of my head.  The sleeping portion of this test should be eliminated at this facility, and the protocol needs to be revised to obtain a complete test and get valid results, else why bother.
AMCO NeuroDiagnostic