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 ...
My return to Yorkhill as a registrar in paediatrics and starting in neurology. The challenges of acute paediatric on call - a child with very severe meningitis but an excellent outcome. Learning lessons about the importance of seeing the child and not the investigations - limitations of brain scans. A girl with what appeared to be Guillain-Barré syndrome but turned out to be something much longer lasting. All backed up with an explanation about meningitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome ...
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 ...
