EPILEPSY MONITORING AND SURGERY

Overview :

Department of epilepsy surgery and monitoring at deenananth mangeshkar hospital is established in 2015. This is one of the top 5 high volume epilepsy surgery centers in India and quaternary referral center for patients across the country offering all the services for epilepsy diagnosis to treatment and rehabilitation under one roof.

Services offered :

Epilepsy Monitoring:

• Long term Video EEG monitoring/ long term Telemetry
• Over-night VEEG recordings
• Routine EEGs
• Sleep study with polysomnography
• Stereo-EEG monitoring and Extra-operative cortical mapping

Surgeries :

• Epilepsy surgeries for hippocampal sclerosis
• Hemispherotomy
• Corpus callosotomy
• Disconnection surgeries
• Radiofrequency ablation
• Stereo EEG
• Deep brain stimulation surgeries
• Vagal Nerve Stimulation implantation surgery
• Stereotactic biopsies

Neuropsychological testing and Rehabilitations:

• Formal Epilepsy Neuropsychological evaluations
• Pediatric IQ and developmental assessment for epilepsy
• Cognitive and behavioral therapy for Epilepsy- counselling
• Psychological counseling.

Departmental TImetable :

Departmental workload :

1. OPD: 1500 patients for out-patient consultations
2. Video EEG Evaluations: 450 patients ( 6 beds)
3. Surgeries: 12-14 per month (150 /year)

Courses and training :

1. Technologist training course: The department is running a course to train the EEG technologist for long term EEG monitoring as well as routine EEG monitoring and currently hosting two students every years with structured curriculum.
2. Imaging in surgical epilepsy (ISE) workshop: The department is organizing the imaging in surgical epilepsy workshop every year for training of epilepsy neurologists, neurosurgeons and radiologists across the country.
3. National pediatric epilepsy symposium: Department is hosting annual national pediatric epilepsy surgery symposium for delegates across the country for advanced training.
4. Bajaj Neurosciences Laboratory: Department hosts a research laboratory actively involved in image processing research and proudly boast the commercializing its research into products. Lab hosts one full time neuroscientist working on it along with ongoing observers and interns working in the field.

Events :

1. Epilepsy Support group meetings: Department is actively hosting the epilepsy support group meeting at regular intervals to increase the awareness about epilepsy surgeries and rehabilitation.
2. Fund raising events: Department is actively engaged in fund raising to cover the surgical expenses of the patients for economically weaker sections and organizing a fund raising events for patients.

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