Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Remote
In February 2008, the Vodafone Foundation and Portugal, signed at the West Lisbon Hospital Group have signed a cooperation agreement to establish a system of epilepsy in children from remote monitoring of S. Francisco Xavier Hospital Egas Moniz Hospital, and increase the number and the potential success of surgical procedures on children with epilepsy. Epilepsy affects five thousand people, most drugs are not the appropriate solution. In these cases, surgery is sometimes necessary to put the parts of the brain that are responsible for their attacks removed. Under this procedure is very strict tests are performed to identify areas of precision. During these investigations it is often necessary to suspend the medication, in whole or in part, that may lead to the occurrence of crises. For this reason, it is necessary that the child is admitted to a pediatric environment with experience in controlling seizures in the hospital and it is necessary to rapidly analyze the traces to minimize the duration of the investigation and risk. With the introduction of this new pediatric epilepsy monitoring system, thanks to the use of mobile communication and implementation of a specially developed software that allows physicians to remotely view of these studies (V- electro-or video-EEG) on a computer or PDA at any time when, even outside the hospital. In other words, they can indeed make these observations the movement. . . ‘ B>