The department of Pediatric Neurology provides the clinical services in the KLE Society’s Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Centre. The outpatient department is run six days a week. With core pediatric neurology other services such as child psychiatrist, psychologist, speech therapist, occupational therapist are also provided. Special clinics are being run for patients with epilepsy/Cerebral Palsy/ Neuromuscular diseases/ Autism/ ADHD/ CVI clinics etc regularly. The neurological emergencies are taken care in Pediatric intensive care unit. Regular 24×7 emergency neurological service is available round the year.

The department:

The department uses the state of the art clinical neurophysiology laboratory which has digital EEG systems with brain mapping facility and located in the department of neurology. The laboratory has an 8 channel ENMG – EP system that can handle basic and advanced clinical neruophysiological procedures including nerve conductions, qualitative and quantitative electromyography, and multimodality evoked potentials.

  • Electroencephalograph (EEG) Equipment
    1. Nihon Kohden Neurofax 1100    32 channel digital Video EEG system
    2. EB Neuro Galileo Mizar 40 channel digital EEG system
  • Electroneuromyography- Evoked Potentials (ENMG – EP) System
    1. Nihon Kohden Neuropack 9200K 8 channel digital system with software  and hardware for routine and advanced nerve conduction studies, electromyography and evoked potentials including event related potentials, autonomic function tests.
    2. Dantec Keypoint Focus : 6 channel ENMG-EP system with protocols for advanced ENMG and EP studies.