Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge opened a six-room Epilepsy Monitoring Unit in late March. Administrators say it’s the first unit of its kind in the Advocate healthcare networ…
The Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge allows staff to keep tabs on patients wearing EEGs. Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge has opened a six-room Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, and administrators say it’s the first unit of its kind in the Advocate hospital group in the state.
“The goal for this unit, and epilepsy treatment in general, is to be seizure-free with the least possible side effects from medications,” said Rouse. “And this is really a way that we can get people there who are struggling to get there,” she said. Patients in the epilepsy monitoring unit will have a continuous electroencephalogram test for the length of their stay, which will give hospital staff a recording of brain wave activity. The test involves 10 to 20 electrodes, placed on a patient’s scalp with a paste and then wrapped with a bandage to hold them in place. Rouse said the wires are 75 feet long to allow patients to move relatively freely in the room.
“We all have electricity inside of us, and we just want to make sure that, you know, if it goes haywire, we’re capturing where it’s going haywire from and then how to fix that.”
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