In the pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit (PEMU) of a large midwestern hospital, patient care is optimized through the design of the unit, nurse and family education, communication, and medication ...

The DETECT study is the first randomised controlled trial comparing Minder System implants to standard care monitoring.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- For 20-year-old Reed Brown, seizures are a daily occurrence. "I can't do anything like drive," Brown said. "I can't work because I'm a liability to anyone that would hire me." ...

SCRANTON – Doctors in the city want to use data to treat a disease that claims more lives than breast cancer. Geisinger Community Medical Center opened a new $1.7 million epilepsy monitoring unit ...

Penn Medicine established a new Epilepsy Monitoring Unit to determine how to best treat patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. The new unit will be located in the Human Neurophysiology Research ...

To increase access to advanced neurological care, Christiana Care Health System has opened the first Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) in the First State. Specially outfitted private hospital rooms in ...

Cedars-Sinai and its affiliate Huntington Health are collaborating on a new Epilepsy Monitoring Unit to bring treatment and care closer to epilepsy patients in the San Gabriel Valley. Epilepsy causes ...

ST. LOUIS – From monitoring and evaluation to treatment and surgery, the nationally accredited 8-patient Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital is fully equipped to ...

A recently FDA-approved device that uses electric stimulation of the brain to treat adult epilepsy patients whose seizures have not responded to medication has been implanted by an American hospital.

Electroencephalograms are the most common diagnostic test for epilepsy. During the test, you will have electrodes attached to your scalp -- either directly or with a cap. These electrodes will watch ...

Nursing care in the PEMU focuses on the needs of the patients and is based on current research. Because the PEMU is part of the general pediatric unit and the PEMU nurses also serve the pediatric ...