The Clinical Neurophysiology Society of South Africa promotes the use and implementation of universal standard guidelines for performance and reporting of all diagnostic procedures or monitoring performed in our field of practice.

At the 2022 Annual General Meeting a proposal was adopted to review and endorse universally accepted International guidelines with the aim of developing South African versions for inclusion in the professional scope of practice documents.

The Society urges all Clinical Neurophysiology practitioners to strive toward implementation off and, adherence to, the below minimum practice standards for recording and reporting of EEG and EDx procedures as endorsed by our Member Societies, IFCN and ILAE, and similarly recognised professional bodies.

International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology Endorsed Guidelines

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 Guidelines

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 Endorsed Guidelines

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