BRIEF HISTORY
This unit which is under the clinical services department of the hospital has in over decades been helping to carry out test on patients brain to know what part of the brain is diseased or afflicted so as to aid accurate diagnosis that will enable the physician to know what to do in specific cases to help the patient even if it requires/involves Neuro-surgery.
OBJECTIVES
To carry out EEG investigation on the patient to know the affected part of the brain.
To aid accurate diagnosis of seizure disorder, headache or migraine, loss of consciousness head injury difficulty in speech, visual disturbances, and delay development in children, paralysis, and all other symptoms of cerebral origin.
To determine the pathology of the brain, in order to confirm if there are normal waves or deviation from the normal waves.
FUNCTIONS
To carry out Electroencephalography investigation on every referred patient/ client to the unit.
To report and interpret EEG result
To give lecture to student nurses from the School of Psychiatric Nursing
To carry out other administrative duties