Paediatric Neurology

Range of Services

Inpatient services:

• Diagnosis and management of acute neurological emergencies including seizures and epilepsy, Guillain-Barre syndrome, ADEM, optic neuritis, transverse myelitis, encephalitis, refractory status epilepticus and pediatric stroke
• Inpatient video EEG, continuous bedside video EEG and epilepsy monitoring for video-EEG monitoring for definitive diagnosis and better characterisation of seizures
• The first pediatric centre in Singapore offering extra-operative subdural EEG monitoring (grid surgery) for medically refractory epilepsy

Outpatient services:

• Paediatric Neurology Clinic for the diagnosis, investigation and management of children with epilepsy, global developmental delay, neuromuscular disorders, movement disorders (including Tourette syndrome), neurometabolic disorders, headache disorders and other neurological disorders
• Epilepsy Clinic for the diagnosis, investigation and management of seizures and epilepsy, including medically refractory epilepsy. Treatment modalities offered include advanced anticonvulsant therapy, dietary therapy (including the ketogenic diet and modified Atkins diet), epilepsy surgery and vagus nerve stimulator implantation
• Neuroimmunology Clinic for the management of children with autoimmune disorders of the central nervous system.
• Multidisciplinary Clinics:
  • Ketogenic Diet Clinic Evaluation, counselling and management of children for dietary therapy for medically refractory epilepsy and selected inborn errors of metabolism by a team comprising pediatric epileptologist, dietician and Neurology Resource Nurse
  • Spasticity Clinic Multi-disciplinary management of children with spasticity & neuromuscular disorders. Identification of children with spasticity suitable for botox therapy, orthopaedic or neurosurgical intervention, to optimise on their functional and ambulatory outcome
• Neurophysiology Lab (ABRET accredited EEG lab) Video EEG and long-term video EEG monitoring, EMG/nerve conduction studies
• Epilepsy Counselling by our team of pharmacists for the education of patients and their carers on epilepsy, how to live with their condition and on the correct way to take medication for epilepsy