Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
Neurologist
Why pick this one
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Epilepsy Monitoring Unit operates a six-bed EMU with 24/7 EEG support for diagnosis and surgery evaluation.
Best for
- confirming or clarifying an epilepsy diagnosis
- localizing seizure activity and origin
- Phase I or Phase II evaluation for epilepsy surgery
- patients needing prolonged video-EEG monitoring
- patients needing outpatient or mobile video-EEG monitoring
- complex epilepsy testing involving SPECT, PET, MEG, intracranial EEG, or neuropsychological testing
Look elsewhere if
- the patient needs general neurology care unrelated to epilepsy
- the patient is seeking a routine non-epilepsy diagnostic appointment
Specialties
- epilepsy diagnosis
- seizure localization
- Phase I epilepsy monitoring
- Phase II presurgical epilepsy monitoring
- prolonged video-EEG monitoring
- intracranial EEG
- SPECT and SISCOM
- magnetoencephalography
- Wada studies
- neuropsychological testing
What makes them different
- Six-bed Epilepsy Monitoring Unit described as the most modern in North Carolina
- 24-hour, seven-day operation with around-the-clock EMU nurses and EEG technical support
- Provides epilepsy evaluation for patients from neonatal through geriatric ages
- One of only a few centers in the southeastern United States with nuclear medicine facilities in the monitoring unit for seizure-time SPECT injection
- Multidisciplinary team includes epilepsy physicians, EEG technologists, epilepsy nurses, neuroradiologists, neuropsychologists, social work, and biomedical engineering
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 1 Medical Center Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27157
- Phone
- 3367164101
- Website
- https://www.wakehealth.edu/locations/clinics/e/...
Services
- inpatient epilepsy monitoring
- outpatient video-EEG monitoring
- mobile video-EEG monitoring
- epilepsy surgery evaluation
- anti-convulsant medication reassessment
- epilepsy clinical trials