Oishei Children’s Hospital
This hospital is the regional center for comprehensive and state-of-the-art pediatric, neonatal, perinatal and obstetrical services in Western New York and beyond.
Oishei Children’s Hospital has achieved national recognition, with U.S. News and World Report ranking it among the top 20 pediatric hospitals in the country.
This modern pediatric acute and emergency care center provides diagnostic and treatment services to Western New York youth experiencing emotional and/or behavioral disturbances or family relationship problems. It offers a full range of medical and surgical services for children as well as comprehensive women’s health services.
A Level I Pediatric Trauma Center - one of only six in New York State - Oishei can accommodate 185 inpatients, including medical/surgical, ICU and neonatal patients, and adult maternity patients. The hospital admits nearly 28,000 patients annually and treats 123,000 patients in the emergency department or one of its 45 specialty clinics.
Training
During our epilepsy monitoring unit rotation, you’ll train in the Regional Epilepsy Monitoring Center. Ours is one of only a few such centers in New York State to achieve the highest designation — Level 4 — from the National Association of Epilepsy Centers.
What does that mean for you? Simply put, you’ll train in an environment that offers the most complex medical and surgical treatments available for epilepsy.
This site provides extensive experience with inpatient and outpatient EEG recording, both routine and long term. Both adult and pediatric patients are admitted to this rotation site for evaluation, including patients with invasive electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring, such as stereotactic EEG and subdural EEG recording. There is also an outpatient EEG lab.
Faculty members will also provide you with didactic content at this site to further enhance your learning experience.
Facilities
Epilepsy center and long-term monitoring unit
Specialized equipment allows for closed-circuit observation and long-term monitoring of seizure patients in the epilepsy monitoring unit.
Video–digital long-term monitoring units provide digital EEG for each bed. A control room allows staff to view patients and their overnight EEGs and behavior.
Patients can be recorded on video while brain activity is monitored 24 hours a day. A daytime play area is equipped with EEG hook-ups and continuous video monitoring.
A conference room has digital connections to the unit’s video cameras and a computer for PowerPoint presentations. Here, faculty and fellows present patient data and video monitoring, fostering discussion of best-care practices with pediatric and adult specialists.
Other specialized equipment and facilities
- three EEG rooms for outpatients, each with a Nihon Kohden digital EEG machine
- EEG reading room for fellow instruction and report writing
- outpatient clinic rooms for evaluation and care of seizures and disorders
Faculty
Our faculty members at this site include:
- two full-time adult epileptologists
- three full-time pediatric epileptologists
- one part-time pediatric epileptologist
Patient Population
You can expect to see pediatric and adult patients with a range of conditions, which may include:
- temporal lobe epilepsy
- Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
- frontal lobe and other extratemporal epilepsies
- multifocal epilepsy
- focal status epilepticus
- primary generalized epilepsy
- symptomatic generalized epilepsy