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 ...

Epilepsy can be a difficult condition to diagnose. Seizures do not always happen in a doctor's office. Fortunately, the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) enhances diagnosis accuracy by observing patients ...

Lehigh Valley Health Network is expanding the scope of neurological care by opening an epilepsy monitoring unit within the Neuroscience Center at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. Patients in the ...

Tetrahydrocannabinol test results do not impact the probability of a patient having a short or long length of stay at the epilepsy monitoring unit. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) positivity does not ...

Epilepsy is a disorder where the patient has one or more unprovoked seizure with high risk of recurrence. Epilepsy Monitoring Unit is a specialized unit in the hospital where the patient will be ...

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." ...

On the fourth floor of Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital — past blue and white walls designed with underwater bubbles and waves — a new medical clinic treats children at their most vulnerable: ...

BARCARO EXPLAINS, SOME OF THOSE DONATIONS GO TOWARDS EQUIPMENT HERE AT PENN STATE HEALTH GOLISANO CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL. TECHNOLOGY IS ALWAYS CHANGING AND SO ARE THE NEEDS TO HELP CHILDREN. THEY CHANGE ...

Cayuga Medical Center’s Epilepsy Monitoring Unit recently welcomed a new director and an expanded program that operates each weekday with advanced neuroscience technology to evaluate adult patients.

BROOKLYN, N.Y., Sept. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NYU Langone Hospital – Brooklyn recently opened a new unit specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy, the fourth most common ...

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

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 ...