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PET1 Mauritius
Saturday 18 June 2022
Method of delivery: Face to faceCourse Duration: 1-day
Cost: GBP 88.00 Healthcare workers from Mauritius
Reduced Cost: GBP 105.00 Healthcare workers from South Africa
Total Course Places: 36 (30 standard places currently available; 0 reduced rate places available)
CPD Points: 6. You will be able to download a pdf of your CPD certificate following attendance at the course.
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VENUE
Paradis Beachcomber
Le Morne Peninsula
Mauritius
Telephone: (+230) 204 2000
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OBJECTIVES
This is a 1-day course, which will be delivered by Consultant Paediatric Neurologists, Consultant Paediatricians with expertise in epilepsy, and a specialist epilepsy nurse. The day will consist of lectures and interactive workshops.
Please download and complete the PET1 precourse workbook (see link above) before attending the course. The workbook contains essential learning material.
By the end of the of PET1, attendees 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
PROGRAMME
08.30-09.00 | Registration with tea and coffee | |
09.00-11.30 | Session 1: History and differential diagnoses | |
Introduction, quiz and opening questions | Whole group | |
Taking the history | Lecture | |
Fits, faints and funny turns | Lecture | |
Faints | Workshop | |
Febrile seizures | Workshop | |
11.30-11.45 | Tea and coffee break | |
11.45-13.15 | Session 2: Seizures and syndromes | |
Epileptic seizures and epilepsies | Lecture | |
The EEG | Lecture | |
Neuroimaging | Lecture | |
Epilepsy syndromes | Workshop | |
13.15-14.00 | Lunch | |
14.00-15.30 | Session 3: Acute management and risks | |
Epilepsy and risks | Lecture | |
Acute presentations | Lecture | |
Comprehensive care | Workshop | |
15.30-15.45 | Tea and coffee break | |
15.45-17.15 | Session 4: Treatment and co-morbidities | |
Medical treatment of childhood epilepsies | Lecture | |
Epilepsy, learning and behaviour | Lecture | |
Quiz | Whole group | |
17.15 | Close |
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
PET1 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 paroxysmal episodes including:
- Consultant Paediatricians and trainees
- Consultants in Neurodisability and trainees
- Consultant Community Paediatricians
- Consultants in Emergency Medicine and trainees
- Nurses in paediatrics and emergency medicine
- Neurophysiologists and EEG technicians
It is recommended those planning to undertake PET2 and PET3 should first complete PET1.
If you are not currently a practising clinician or you hold a different job role to those listed above, please contact a member of the International Education Team on +44(0)208 037 4749 or email us at international@bpna.org.uk to discuss if you should attend this course.
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