Chernivtsi: At children's hospital implemented a round-the-clock registration of electroencephalogram
Thanks to benefactors in the city children's hospital implemented a new, modern medical technology – hour check-in electroencephalogram (EEG) with dearestbecky of the child's behavior. All-Ukrainian charitable Foundation "every little helps", which co-owner is "PrivatBank" and private entrepreneur Vladimir Tereshkin presented expensive equipment for anesthesiology and resuscitation of city clinical children's hospital. In the hospital hospitalized children with diseases of the Central nervous system, traumatic brain injury, seizures due to metabolic disorders and increase body temperature, and brain tumors. To provide an adequate and timely intensive care they require clarification of diagnosis, namely, the search of the source of excitation of the cerebral cortex in epilepsy or convulsions, or detection of "silent" zones with reduced electrical activity during tumors, inflammatory processes abuo after traumatic brain injury. It should be noted that the study is conducted in a comfortable environment of the intensive care unit, where close to a child can be one of the parents or close relatives. Experienced staff, and this intensity two doctors and four nurses, clinical and biochemical laboratories provide around the clock medical supervision and medical assistance to newborns and children up to 18 years. Reference Conventional electroencephalography is powerless to locate the pathological lesion in the affected area of the brain, if it is carried out not during an attack of cramps. This was developed for video EEG monitoring – the "gold standard" diagnosis of epilepsy - long-term synchronous EEG and video recording of the patient's behavior. According to existing global standards video EEG monitoring is performed in a hospital under the supervision of qualified medical personnel. This is due not only to technical requirements, the need to protect equipment from harmful atmospheric influences, technical networks, the need for a qualitative grounding of equipment, and, primarily with the fact that in the study can be used methods of "stimulation" seizures: rhythmic photic stimulation, hyperventilation (rapid deep breathing), sleep deprivation (lack of sleep planned before the study) Such methods are used primarily in patients with infrequent seizures for the emergence of the study of video-EEG epileptiform activity and attacks. Video-EEG montoring – it is long (at least hours) of continuous, simultaneous recording of EEG, video and audio signals. Many convulsive States are not epileptic, are caused by psychogenic factors, but it is very reminiscent of the epileptic seizures. In such cases, video-EEG allows us to see not epileptic nature of the seizures, and not to assign or cancel antiepileptic drugs that like all drugs, have many side effects. Timely diagnosis of epileptic nature of attacks allows you to start an early therapy. Video EEG is also used to assess the effectiveness of treatment. Thus, video-EEG monitoring is prescribed for diagnostic purposes to determine: – the nature of the seizure is epileptic or not epileptic, which disease to treat; – type of seizure - generalized, focal, other; – forms of epilepsy; – localization of epileptic focus; – EEG monitoring - to determine the prognosis for life and health of patients in WRT in a long coma; With the medical purpose of video EEG monitoring allows you to: – to determine the probability of seizures recurrence after a first epileptic seizure; – to assess changes in EEG - to start or not to start medication; – to spend choice of anti-epileptic drug; – to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment, the probability of recurrence of seizures in remission with effective drug therapy; – to localize the spread of epileptic focus with therapeutically resistant epilepsy for surgical treatment. Turn the search of sources of financing for the purchase of the device for round-the-clock recording of electrocardiogram. This was reported in the Chernivtsi city CouncilÏåðåâåäåíî ñåðâèñîì "ßíäåêñ.Ïåðåâîä÷èê": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
