BPNA PET1 Course
London North – Friday 23 February 2018
Book your place at: https://www.bpna.org.uk/ecomm_product_view.php?courseid=262
This course has been developed to improve practice within childhood epilepsies. It is suitable for all health professionals providing primary or secondary level care for children with epilepsy including:
- Consultant paediatricians
- Trainee paediatricians, trainee paediatric neurologists and trainees in neurodisability
- Consultants in Accident and Emergency and those in training
- It is also recommended for all those planning to undertake PET2 training should first complete a PET1 course
- Nurses in primary care, A&E and paediatrics
- Neurophysiologists and EEG technicians
By the end of the study day participants will be able to:
- Define: seizure, epilepsy, epilepsy syndrome and be able to provide a simple classification of epilepsy
- Describe the different seizure types eg absence, myoclonic, tonic clonic, tonic, atonic, focal motor and focal sensory
- Give differential diagnosis for seizures, and how to distinguish epilepsy from syncopes (simple faints, reflex
- anoxic seizure, breath holding) and inattention (day-dreaming, pre-occupation)
- Manage the first seizure event (not status epilepticus management)
- Appreciate the contribution made by EEG and neuro-imaging
- Describe the principles of treatment, the indication for anti-convulsants and the well-known side effects of these drugs
- Offer practical advice for parents and children with epilepsy
For more information please see: https://www.bpna.org.uk/pet/
