Multidisciplinary approach to hospitalized epileptic children and their families

• Main Authors: Angela Cristina Pontes, Lúcia da Rocha Uchôa Figueiredo, Nilce Baldin Gavioli, Carolina Araújo Rodrigues Funayama
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein 2006-06-01
• Series: Einstein (São Paulo)
• Subjects: Patient care team; Epilepsy; Patients rooms; Caregivers; Child; hospitalized
• Online Access: http://www.einstein.br/revista/arquivos/PDF/Einstein%20vol4%20n2_89.pdf

Objective: Epilepsy is the most frequent diagnosis in the ward;due to the high degree of complexity of its investigation andtreatment, the objective of this work was to proceed to an analysisof the interventions of the team with hospitalized epileptic childrenand their families. Methods: The data were obtained from theclinical handbooks and individual registers of the specialties.Results: There were 235 elective admissions, 88 regarding theEpilepsy. The services for specialties were distributed among those88 epileptic children: physiotherapy (34%), psychology (41%) andoccupational therapy (88.6%). Conclusion: Given the severity ofthe social and biological sequelae associated with the diagnosisof epilepsy and the need for a family intervention, themultidisciplinary work focused on the child, in stimulationinterventions and promotion of his/her development, with a viewto minimize the sequelae; and providing the family with orientationand support, in order to give them more elaborate strategies forcoping with the disease and improve conditions for supplying postdischargeinfant treatment.