{"id":1982,"date":"2014-05-21T14:14:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T18:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2021-02-17T13:49:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:49:41","slug":"new-unit-will-monitor-epilepsy-patients-245","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/uncategorized\/new-unit-will-monitor-epilepsy-patients-245\/","title":{"rendered":"New unit will monitor epilepsy patients 24\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-center\"><em>APN Gillian Reid McDonald (left), Neurologist Dr. Rajendra Kale and Jos\u00e9e Carpentier, EEG Technician, celebrated the new Epilepsy Monitoring Unit that opened in May.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The new Epilepsy Monitoring Unit \u2013 the first of its kind for adults in the Ottawa region \u2013 officially welcomed its first patient just days after opening in May.<\/p>\n<p>The two-bed unit, located at the Civic Campus in the Neurosciences Acute Care Unit, will allow people with drug-resistant epilepsy to be monitored 24 hours a day for up to five days by continuous video EEG (electroencephalogram).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis unit allows us to see what\u2019s happening with their seizures and hopefully enhance patients\u2019 quality of life,\u201d said Gillian Reid McDonald, Advanced Practice Nurse in the EMU. With the EEG results, the health-care team can fine-tune the diagnosis and develop an appropriate treatment plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t have to send those patients off to Toronto or Montreal as often,\u201d said Dr. Rajendra Kale, Neurologist. \u201cIt\u2019s a first for The Ottawa Hospital and a major step towards building a full epilepsy program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lori Timmins, an Epilepsy Ottawa board member, said the EMU offers new hope and a better quality of life for many.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can hopefully obtain more accurate and faster diagnostics, as well as treatment plans that are manageable for the patient and their caretakers,\u201d Timmins said.<\/p>\n<p>The Champlain LHIN has funded the EMU with $750,000 per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APN Gillian Reid McDonald (left), Neurologist Dr. Rajendra Kale and Jos\u00e9e Carpentier, EEG Technician, celebrated the new Epilepsy Monitoring Unit that opened in May. The new Epilepsy Monitoring Unit \u2013 the first of its kind for adults in the Ottawa region \u2013 officially welcomed its first patient just days after opening in May. The two-bed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":1983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}