Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital https://www.mountsinai.org/locations/kravischildrens will be the first children’s hospital in Manhattan to use a new state-of-the-art seizure monitoring device.
This device facilitates rapid point-of-care that is able to detect and diagnose non-convulsive seizure activity in critically ill children. Until now, the technology known as the Ceribell Rapid Response device, has only been available to adult patients at the Mount Sinai Hospital.
The device consists of a small headband with electrodes and a small recording device that can be transported easily within the hospital setting. Since the device is portable and relatively easy to operate, it can be set up and used within a few minutes.
According to Sandeep Gangadharan, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Medical Director of Pediatric Critical Care at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital, “ This new addition to our critical care units will not only benefit our pediatric patients with seizure disorders, but also those who have experienced other neurological injuries or surgery, as well as children who have undergone cardiac surgery.”
The availability of the technology at the bedside in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit will enable Mount Sinai clinicians to detect and treat non-convulsive seizures within five minutes.