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Epilepsy Monitoring Unit At Palm Beach Gardens

Medical Center Specializes In

Diagnosis And Treatment Of Seizures

If you’ve been having unexplained seizures, whether Spanish speaking patients. Nath has additional areas of nervous system function during a procedure.
it’s sudden jerking movements of your arms and legs interest in headaches and multiple sclerosis treatments as For more information on Advanced Neurological Care
to suddenly falling into a haze and confusion, you may well as experience in intraoperative monitoring, a process available at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center visit
have epilepsy. You would be far from alone. More than involving a board-certified neurophysiologist monitoring pbgmc.com/services/neurosciences or call (561) 622-
2.4 million people are already diagnosed, with 150,000 a patient’s brain, spinal cord and nerves at risk during 1411. To learn more about the Palm Beach Neuroscience
people finding out they have it each year. surgery as well as performing tests to measure central Institute visit PBNI.com or call (561) 882-6214.
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center was the first in the
county to introduce a dedicated epilepsy monitoring unit.
We offer long-term video monitoring, where the patient is
continuously observed on camera while their brainwave Live Theatre in
activity is tracked. This will tell our team what triggers a
seizure, decipher if the seizure is epileptic or psychogenic, Downtown
and if it is epilepsy, establish which specific type.
This type of specialized monitoring can detect the
epileptic activity that a routine electroencephalogram West Palm Beach!
(EEG) cannot.
Usually, patients spend three to five days in our unit,
filled with dedicated staff, including technologists, nurses, December 9-24, 2022
and doctors.
A team of three neurologists from the Palm Beach
Neuroscience Institute (PBNI) including Dr. Pedro TWELVE ANGRY MEN
Hernandez-Frau and Dr. Juan Carlos Muniz also provide In this timely, timeless classic, 12 jurors
epilepsy care as epileptologists on staff at the Epilepsy deliberate the fate of a teenager accused of
Monitoring Unit at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. killing his father. As the evidence is weighed, the
In addition, Dr. Sujai “Ron” Nath is a neurohospitalist
with PBNI who has an interest in epilepsy care. prejudices and social attitudes of each man are
“We have board-certified neurologists specializing in revealed – as are the strengths and flaws of the
epilepsy care at our epilepsy monitoring unit. The unit American justice system.
evaluates patients with seizure-like episodes or any type
of seizures to either confirm or clarify diagnosis,” said
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO),
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and their episodes are something that looks like seizures.
“At the epilepsy monitoring unit we focus on gathering
more information to evaluate other potential treatment Call (561) 514-4042 ext 2 or palmbeachdramaworks.org
options.”
Hernandez-Frau specializes in intractable epilepsy
for drug-resistant epilepsy, epilepsy surgery evaluation 201 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401
and long-term video-electroencephalography (EEG)
monitoring. Muniz provides ICU continuous monitoring,
long-term video-EEG monitoring, and intractable
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