The Clinical Neurophysiology Society of South Africa (CNSSA) promotes the adoption of universal standards for the performance and reporting of all diagnostic and monitoring procedures within our field of practice. These international guidelines serve as a benchmark for consistency, accuracy, and professionalism across clinical neurophysiology services.

We encourage all Clinical Neurophysiology practitioners to implement and adhere to the minimum standards outlined below. These have been endorsed by globally respected professional bodies such as the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN), the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), and similar organisations. By aligning with these standards, practitioners contribute to improved care, greater professional accountability, and international recognition of our field in South Africa.

At the 2022 Annual General Meeting, CNSSA adopted a proposal to formally review and endorse internationally accepted guidelines, with the goal of adapting them for the South African context and incorporating them into official scope of practice documents.

International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology

• A revised glossary of terms most commonly used by clinical
  electroencephalographers and updated proposal for the report
  format of the EEG findings. Revision 2017 and Corrigendum 2019
• The standardized EEG electrode array of the IFCN 2017
• Clinical Neurophysiology Guidelines of the IFCN (2nd Ed, published 1999)
• Minimum standards for inpatient long-term video-EEG monitoring: A clinical practice guideline of the international league against epilepsy and international federation of clinical neurophysiology (2021)

American Clinical Neurophysiology Society

• Guideline 1: Minimum Technical Requirements for Performing Clinical Electroencephalography 2016
• Guidelines for Standard Electrode Position Nomenclature 2016
• Minimum Technical Standards for Pediatric Electroencephalography 2016
• Minimum Technical Standards for EEG Recording in Suspected Cerebral Death 2016
• Minimum Technical Requirements for ​Performing Ambulatory ​EEG​
• Standardized Critical Care EEG Terminology: 2021 Version

International League Against Epilepsy

• Guideline on Photic Stimulation 2012
  
• ILAE classification of the epilepsies 2017
• Operational classification of seizure types by the International League Against Epilepsy 2017
  
• Instruction manual for the ILAE 2017 operationalclassification of seizure types 2017
  
• The ILAE classification of seizures and the epilepsies: Modification for seizures in the neonate. 2020
• Testing patients during seizures 2016
• Minimum requirements for the diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures 2013
  
• NICE Guidelines 2022: Epilepsies in children, young people and adults

American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine

• AANEM Glossary of Terms in Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic
  Medicine 2015
  
• Establishing High-Quality Reference Values for Nerve Conduction Studies:  A Report from the Normative Data Task Force of the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine
• Somatosensory Evoked Potentials: Clinical Uses

European Academy of Neurology/Peripheral Nerve Society

• European Academy of Neurology/Peripheral Nerve Society guideline on diagnosis and treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy: Report of a joint Task Force— Second  revision 2021