Outcomes and features of the Neuroscience Center

Features of the Neuroscience Center

• Home to the largest and most advanced pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit in the region.
• Houses a state-of-the-art epilepsy monitoring unit to monitor patients 24 hours a day. The unit is the largest of its kind in the region.
• Nationally known for the ketogenic diet program, a complex diet requiring specialized plans to control epilepsy. 
• Patients can receive long-term video EEG monitoring within the EMU, the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Exceptional outcomes of the Neuroscience Center

• Charges significantly less per day for craniotomy, spinal fusions and ventricular shunt procedures than the national average of peer pediatric hospitals.
• More than 50 percent of Neurosurgery outpatient and inpatient visits come to Children's Hospital from outside of Milwaukee.
• More than 60 percent of Neurology outpatient visits come to Children's Hospital from outside of Milwaukee, and more than 50 percent of inpatients come from outside of Milwaukee.
• Neurology urgent clinic visits occur within a week of request.
• Neurosurgery emergency visits occur on the same day or within two days of the request.
• Only six percent of patients who receive long-term epilepsy monitoring experience a readmission.
• Seven percent of craniotomy patients experience a readmission.
• Seventy-four percent of epilepsy surgery patients are seizure-free following surgery. 
• Staff closely monitor readmission rates for spine procedures, a known complication. Since 2006, readmission rates within 14 days has consistently been below 25 percent.
• Treats a significantly higher percentage of severe patients with ventricular shunt procedures.
• Ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection rate is below 4 percent, consistently below the national average of 10 percent. Infection rates for cerebrospinal fluid shunt surgery have been consistently below the national average for more than eight years.

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