Our team will closely monitor your child’s brain activity. The CNA will also be able to help your child with their basic care needs. A certified nursing assistant (CNA) will be in your child’s room at all times to keep them safe and make sure your child does not touch their head, the wires or their head wrap. Our nurses and the surgery team will watch the wrap and rewrap your child’s head as needed. Once the wires are in place, your child will stay in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) at our hospital in Seattle for about 1 week.ĭuring your child’s stay in the EMU, we will place a wrap on their head to protect their scalp and the stereo EEG wires. Your child will be given general anesthesia for this procedure, so they will be fully asleep. The surgeon will make between 6 and 15 holes for the wires. The wires fit through tiny holes in your child’s skull. ROSA allows the neurosurgeon to place the wires precisely and reduces your child’s pain and time in recovery. Neurosurgeons will put the wires directly in your child’s brain using a robotic operating surgery assistant (ROSA) in the operating room.
Our team uses this information to determine if epilepsy surgery is right for your child. During the stereo EEG, small wires with contacts record activity on the surface of and deep inside the brain. It is a minimally invasive procedure that helps the doctor find the source of your child’s seizures. Stereo EEG, also called SEEG, stands for stereo electroencephalography.