This Epilepsy Awareness course provides guidance on how to help your patient/client having a seizure and how to plan ahead to minimise any danger of injury during seizures.
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterised by recurrent seizures. Its effects can be extremely distressful and debilitating for sufferers and anyone present during a seizure.
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Course Content
- What is Epilepsy?
- Causes of the condition
- Who can be affected?
- Common triggers of a seizure
- Diagnosis
- Types of seizures
- Medical Conditions resulting in seizures
- Management of seizures
- Status Epilepticus
- Medication used in epilepsy
- Planning ahead
Epilepsy is commonly controlled with medication. However, around 30% of the estimated 45 million people who suffer with epilepsy worldwide will never gain full control and the use of rescue medication may be required.
Course Assessment and Certification
Ongoing assessments are carried out by the trainer throughout the course and there is a multiple choice quiz to complete.
On successful completion of the course students will receive a certificate that is valid for 3 years.
This course is often booked with the following courses:
- Buccal Midazolam Administration
- Administration of Rectal Diazepam
- Epilepsy Awareness & Rescue Medication Administration
We offer a reduced price for 2 half day courses booked for the same date and same venue.
Onsite Training Locations
Tidal Training provide onsite face to face healthcare training to large and small organisations across the United Kingdom. Our tutors will travel to your workplace or choice of venue and deliver training at a time and date which fits in with your organisation’s work commitments. If you require training outside of normal working hours we will be more than happy to support you. Our clients do not have to pay for mileage or any other added extras.
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Onsite Training for Epilepsy Awareness Course
This Epilepsy Awareness course and all of the Clinical Training Courses we provide can be delivered onsite in most cities and surrounding areas in England, Wales and Scotland including:
- Aberdeen
- Bangor
- Bath
- Birmingham
- Bradford
- Brighton and Hove
- Bristol
- Cambridge
- Canterbury
- Cardiff
- Carlisle
- Chester
- Chichester
- Coventry
- Derby
- Dundee
- Durham
- Edinburgh
- Ely
- Exeter
- Glasgow
- Gloucester
- Hereford
- Inverness
- Kingston upon Hull
- Lancaster
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Lichfield
- Lincoln
- Liverpool
- City of London
- Manchester
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Newport
- Norwich
- Nottingham
- Oxford
- Perth
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Portsmouth
- Preston
- Ripon
- Salford
- Salisbury
- Sheffield
- Southampton
- St Albans
- St Davids
- Stirling
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Sunderland
- Swansea
- Truro
- Wakefield
- Wells
- Westminster
- Winchester
- Wolverhampton
- Worcester
- York
- Wherever you are!