EPNS Training Course Budapest 8-9 March 2016
EPILEPSY
Tuesday 8 MARCH 2016
Session 1: Clinical Diagnosis (2,5 hours)
09:00-10:30
Seizure types
Alexis Arzimanoglou
Syndrome classification
(including some ideas about the newer classification)
Sameer Zuberi
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00
Epilepsy imitators, differential diagnosis
Sameer Zuberi
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Session 2: Diagnostic examinations (2 hours)
13:00-15:00
EEG (link with semiology)
Lieven Lagae
MR imaging (How to find the focus, When focus can not be found.. )
Peter Barsi
Genetics (which case to test, when and where, does the result influence the treatment, etc)
Sameer Zuberi
15:00-15:15 Break
Session 3: Co-morbidities of epilepsy / Quality of Life (1.5 hours)
15:15-16:45
Development / cognition / school
Behavioural
Coping with epilepsy (warning devices, night supervision, sport)
16:45-17:00 Break
Interactive quiz (1 hour)
17:00-18:00
Lieven Lagae
Alexis Arzimanoglou
Lieven Lagae
EPNS Training Course Budapest 8-9 March 2016
EPILEPSY
Wednesday 9 MARCH 2016
Session 4: Treatment of epilepsy (4 hours)
09:00-11:00
Antiepileptic drugs: rational approach, first line, second line drugs, withdrawal
Katalin Hollody
Ketogenic diet
Coriene Catsman-Berrevoets
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-13:15
Other non-surgical treatment (VNS, immune)
Surgery
Newer: closed loop systems
13:15-14:00 Lunch
Session 5: Case studies prepared by participants (3 hours)
14:00-17:00
Quiz/Exam
17:00-18:00
Lieven Lagae
Alexis Arzimanoglou
Lieven Lagae