Florida hospital opens Epilepsy Monitoring Unit GOLISANO, FLORIDA - Four-year-old Logan Mendres, topped in a mesh cap that holds down innumerable wires, hunkered down in the covers of his hospital bed and used his pink iPad to hide from the dozen or so people who crowded his room in the new epilepsy monitoring unit at Golisano Childrens Hospital of Southwest Florida. The North Cape Coral youngster, who started having seizures when he was 3 months old, was in the unit for a 24-hour monitoring period Wednesday. He recently had been having seizures up to four times a week, but with the help of medication and technology, he has been seizure-free for about a month. The unit opened in July, the first of its kind between St. Petersbug and Miami. Golisano purchased the epilepsy monitoring unit equipment with $117,000 in donations. According to the Epilepsy Association, about 300,000 American children younger than 14 have epilepsy. It affects children at different ages and in different ways — sometimes a brief vacant stare thats almost undetectable or herky-jerky muscle spasms that make you fall down. Either way they can be debilitating and in some cases fatal. When the sufferer is a child it can mean confusion, fear and alarm for the entire family. Were hoping he grows out of it, said Kerri Mendres, 29, Logans mom. But, the reality is that might not happen. So were doing every testing possible. Dr. Guillermo Philipps, a pediatric neurologist at Golisano, said the seizures can be drastically different for each patient, some controlled handily by medication while others may need brain surgery. More - news-press/story/news/local/2014/10/15/golisano-hospital-opens-epilepsy-monitoring-unit/17336595/
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:20:40 +0000
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