Dates
- 2024: 19 June, 4 September, 6 November
Course details
- Time: 1:30pm to 4:30pm
- Venue: Online via Zoom
- Trainer: Tim Dallinger, Social Care Consultants Ltd
- Targeted services: All services
- Target group: All those who work with people who have epilepsy
Course aims and objectives
By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:
- Define epilepsy
- Discuss the treatment of people with epilepsy in the past
- Identify the main causes of epilepsy
- Identify the main types of seizure
- List triggers for seizures
- Discuss treatment options including:
- Medication - types and how they work. The importance of timing.
- Ketogenic Diet
- Brain surgery
- Deep brain stimulation
- Trigeminal nerve stimulation
- Vagus nerve stimulation
- Complementary therapies
- First aid for a seizure
- Identify the main risks of having epilepsy
- Explaining status epilepticus
- Convulsive status epilepticus
- Non-convulsive status epilepticus
- Explain when to call 999 (ambulance)
- List the treatments for status epilepticus and how they work
- Rectal diazepam
- Buccal midazolam
- Discus basic pharmacokinetics– the way in which drugs are absorbed in the body
- Identify when to administer buccal midazolam
- Describe the procedure for the administration of buccal midazolam
- Explain post seizure care
- Recognise the importance and the value of good record keeping in epilepsy support.
- SUDEP
For further information, or if you have booked a place on the course and have not received notification to attend please contact the Workforce Development & Learning Administrative Team. Please do not turn up to any course unless you have received notification of your place as the event may be fully booked.