About us

The Department focuses on diagnostics and the non-surgical treatment of diseases of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves and muscular apparatus, including the use of special electrophysiological and ultra-sound diagnostic methods..

In this area, we provide complex outpatient and ward care for both inpatients and outpatients.  The Department also includes an Epilepsy Center providing specialized outpatient and ward care for patients suffering from epilepsy.

We have two epilepsy counseling units, which examined 2,112 patients during 2003, and an epileptological monitoring unit (EMU), which, in addition to its other activities, conducts long-term monitoring and selection of patients for epileptosurgical treatment, as well as acting as providing consultancy services for other neurology centers throughout the Czech Republic.  In 2003, 212 inpatients were monitored by the EMU, of whom 21 were monitored by surgical implantation of electrodes and 42 were indicated for epileptosurgical treatment.  During the course of 2003, a project was prepared to treat epilepsy by removing the epileptogenous tissue through stereotactic surgery, a methodology that was brought into use in 2004.  During this period, care of patients with epilepsy has been marked by intensive interdisciplinary collaboration between the hospital´s neuroscientific departments and, together with the Department of Neurology, the Department of Neurosurgery, the Department of Stereotactic and Radiation Neurosurgery, the Department of Radiodiagnostics and the Department of Nuclear Medicine/PET Center have traditionally participated in this program.  Na Homolce Hospital is one of the three largest epileptological and epileptosurgical centers in the Czech Republic with the highest number of operated patients.

The specialized intensive care unit for the treatment of acute and very serious neurological conditions also acts as a post-graduate training center for intensive care neurology.  In 2003 9 intra-arterial thromobolyses were performed on intensive care inpatients, 12 patients with polyradiculoneuritiditis received comprehensive treatment, including a series of plasmapheroses  and 9 patients with resistant epilepsy were treated.  In 2003 an extension was built on to the Intensive Care unit, which has further expanded its capacity..

Outpatient care also covers, in addition to the outpatient clinic for the treatment of general neurological disorders, the neurovascular clinic and the spinal counseling unit, which also refers patients for surgical interventions to the spinal canal, as well as the evoked potentials laboratory, the electromyographic laboratory and the transcranial Doppler ultrasound unit.