The Department of Neurology provides high quality inpatient and outpatient services for children with a wide range of neurological conditions. 

Inpatient services

• Emergency admissions
• Elective admissions
• Inpatient consultation for medical, surgical and intensive care patients
• Electroencephalopgraphy (EEG)
• Video-EEG monitoring (VEM)
• Nerve conduction studies and electromyography (EMG)
• Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP)
• Intraoperative monitoring for spinal and neurosurgical procedures
  

Children admitted under the Neurology department are generally admitted to the Cockatoo ward.

Day Medical Unit and Day Procedure services

• Immunotherapies
• Gene therapies
• Lumbar puncture
• Nerve conduction studies and electromyography (EMG)

Outpatient programs and services

In addition to General Neurology clinics, the Department of Neurology offers the following subspecialist services: 

• Comprehensive epilepsy program
• Neuromuscular program
  
• Stroke program
• Neuroinflammatory diseases program
  
• Leukodystrophy program
• Brain malformation program
• Neurofibromatosis type 1 program
  
• Complex movement disorders program
• Consultation to the Neuro-oncology program

Neurophysiology

• Routine EEG
• Home video-EEG monitoring
• Nerve conduction studies and electromyography (EMG)

Updated March 2021