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A 27-year-old man with drug-resistant left mesial temporal lobe epilepsy undergoes EMU monitoring for pre-surgical evaluation. He has a family history of SUDEP (brother died at age 24). During night 3, he has an unprovoked focal-to-bilateral tonic-clonic seizure while asleep in the prone position. The seizure lasts 82 seconds with left temporal onset and secondary generalization. Immediately after seizure termination, the EEG shows the finding marked **A** in the diagram, accompanied by oxygen desaturation to 71%, apnea, and transient asystole for 6 seconds. The nurse repositions him supine and administers oxygen; he recovers spontaneously. Which of the following best describes the EEG feature marked **A** and its clinical significance in this context?
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