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Clinical Services

  • 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