In this episode we meet Charlie, a young man with an extremely severe epilepsy which was not responding to optimal anti-epileptic drug therapy. His mother was an amazing lady who searched far and wide for options to help treat his epilepsy. She learned about a way of treating epilepsy using a device called a Vagus Nerve Stimulator about the same time that I came across it at an epilepsy meeting. At the time only one child in the UK had had the device implanted and we had to ...
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In this episode we meet Charlie, a young man with an extremely severe epilepsy which was not responding to optimal anti-epileptic drug therapy. His mother was an amazing lady who searched far and wide for options to help treat his epilepsy. She learned about a way of treating epilepsy using a device called a Vagus Nerve Stimulator about the same time that I came across it at an epilepsy meeting. At the time only one child in the UK had had the device implanted and we had to ...
I had an amazing three months in Sydney. This episode outlines my time there - the people I met, the stimulation of the interactions and the challenges of reviewing data from many, many children with complex neuropathies. We discuss two children - one a baby with a severe early onset form of epilepsy known as West syndrome. We look at treatment then and now and see how much we've learned as neurologists in the last few years. I also discuss a young boy who I only met once wh...
Tales of a Children's Doctor
In this episode we meet Charlie, a young man with an extremely severe epilepsy which was not responding to optimal anti-epileptic drug therapy. His mother was an amazing lady who searched far and wide for options to help treat his epilepsy. She learned about a way of treating epilepsy using a device called a Vagus Nerve Stimulator about the same time that I came across it at an epilepsy meeting. At the time only one child in the UK had had the device implanted and we had to ...
