Compassion that Surrounds You
You simply want your kids to experience childhood as it's meant to be — a time of wonder and discovery. So when pediatric epilepsy takes your child off course, keeping them from fully living, it’s natural to feel scared, frustrated, and powerless. It’s why, from the moment you come to us in search of answers, we’re here to empower you and your family with access to some of the nation’s best minds in pediatric epilepsy.
Within AdventHealth, you’ll have access to a true destination facility for childhood epilepsy treatment — one of the largest and most-comprehensive programs in the nation. Our program is led by some of the most-respected pediatric epilepsy specialists in the country, and they’re supported by an interdisciplinary team that’s dedicated to helping you and your child manage and overcome this life-altering condition. So they can continue to approach life with an unimpeded sense of childlike wonder.
Individualized Pediatric Epilepsy Care
- A Collaborative Approach to the Prevention and Management of Seizures
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From the first moment we meet, you and your child will be guided by a team of individuals committed to the care and treatment of seizures, a multidisciplinary team that includes pediatric neuropsychologists, neuroradiologists, neurologists, dietitians, nurse practitioners, researchers, rehabilitation therapists, and social workers. It's this collaborative mindset that makes our childhood epilepsy treatment centers like none other, providing a multi-tiered, whole-person approach to managing and preventing seizures. Our leading epilepsy diagnostic monitoring tools include:
- All-Digital Video EEG Equipment – A test that detects electrical activity in your child’s brain.
- FDG-PET – A procedure that helps detect metabolically active malignant lesions.
- Ictal SPECT Scan – A scan that localizes the region of seizure onset for epilepsy surgery planning.
- Magnetoencephalography (MEG) – A non-invasive, non-surgical brain-mapping procedure that provides the most-accurate picture possible of where and when brain activity occurs.
- MRI
Children and their families come to us from all over the world for treatment of their epilepsy-related conditions, taking advantage of our sophisticated diagnostics and state-of-the-art technologies, including 3T MRI that allows surgeons to image the brain during surgery, increasing accuracy and improving pediatric epilepsy treatment outcomes.
- Types of Epilepsy-Related Conditions We Treat
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We're here to heal your child's body, mind, and spirit with a whole-person approach and an interdisciplinary model of care. Within our network, our pediatric epilepsy specialists are able to tap into the collective expertise of our entire clinical staff, which includes more than 30 clinicians. We are dedicated to treating the root causes of seizures at all levels, employing the latest non-surgical and surgical interventions, including minimally invasive procedures, leading-edge diagnostic technology, and proven therapies.
From diagnosis and advanced treatments, to comprehensive rehabilitation, the experts leading our pediatric neuroscience programs are dedicated to helping your child overcome the following epilepsy-related conditions:
- Benign Childhood Epilepsy
- Brain Tumor
- Congenital or Perinatal Stroke
- Cortical Dysplasia
- Cryptogenic Epilepsy (Epilepsy Without Cause)
- Doose Syndrome
- Epilepsy Syndromes
- GLUT-1 Deficiency and Other Metabolic Conditions
- Hemimegaloencephaly
- Hypomelanosis of ITO Rasmussen Syndrome
- Infantile Spasms (West Syndrome)
- Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
- Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome
- Negative or Non-Lesional Epilepsy
- Pediatric Epilepsy
- Post-Infection Epilepsy From Meningitis, Abscess, Encephalitis Tuberous Sclerosis, or Sturge-Weber Syndrome
- Post-Trauma, Including Premature Birth, Birth Injury, or Traumatic Brain Injury
- Symptomatic Epilepsy (Epilepsy with Identifiable Causes)
- Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
Beyond providing the best childhood epilepsy treatment options available, every member of our dedicated team understands that being in and out of hospitals and doctor's visits isn't easy for you or your child. It’s why you'll always be surrounded with details designed with your child’s health and imagination in mind, from our colorful settings to our specialized kid-friendly technology.
- Life-Saving Childhood Epilepsy Treatments
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Within AdventHealth, you and your child will have access to a Level 4 Epilepsy Center, the highest designation for epilepsy centers in the nation. Here, you’ll find the only program in the state of Florida offering breakthrough MEG/Magnetoencephalography technology, allowing us to provide you with the most-progressive pediatric epilepsy treatments available. Children and their families come to us from all over the world for treatment of their epilepsy-related conditions and prevention of future seizures. We specialize in both nonsurgical and surgical childhood epilepsy treatment options, including:
- Corpus Callostomies
- Hemispherectomies or Hermispherectomies
- Ketogenic Diets – A high-fat and low-carbohydrate regimen that has proven to help the body produce natural anticonvulsants.
- Medications
- Resective Surgeries
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS)
Through your family’s challenging moments, we’re here to answer every question, cultivate peacefulness, and instill hope.
Children’s Health Care You Can Count On
Within AdventHealth, you’ll have access to a true destination facility for childhood epilepsy treatment — one of the largest and most-comprehensive programs in the nation. Our program is led by some of the most-respected pediatric epilepsy specialists in the country, and they’re supported by an interdisciplinary team that’s dedicated to helping you and your child manage and overcome this life-altering condition. So they can continue to approach life with an unimpeded sense of childlike wonder.