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