Publications by authors named "Vimala Elumalai"
Article Synopsis
- * A study involving 11 specialists identified three main themes in discussions: selecting candidates for surgery, personalized counseling, and tools to aid decision-making.
- * There's a lack of consistency in how epilepsy surgery is discussed; calls for improved training and guidelines aim to enhance shared decision-making between families and physicians.
Objectives: To identify facilitators and barriers of epilepsy self-management practices among Black children and caregivers.
Methods: Qualitative semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 11 child-caregiver dyads (11 children with epilepsy and 11 caregivers). A deductive-inductive analysis was undertaken to describe the range of barriers and facilitators significant to participants.
Objective: To describe the rapid conceptualization and implementation of an interdisciplinary epilepsy clinic for children with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) at Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH) during the COVID 19 pandemic.
Methods: Focusing on care design and care coordination for children with DRE, multiple stakeholder groups decided to implement a clinic after the systematic rating of constructs present in a theoretical meta-analytic framework. Based on the projected success, the new interdisciplinary clinic (composed of an epileptologist, a neurosurgeon, and a neuropsychologist and coordinated by a full-time nurse) was established.