Fons Estupiña, Maria del Carmen
Carreño Martínez, Mar
Arzimanoglou , Alexis
Graduates in medicine, specializing in pediatrics or neurology.
- Gain knowledge to diagnose epilepsy in children, adolescents and adults. -
- Gain knowledge of the main causes of epilepsies.
- Know how to interpret the symptoms of a fit, the EEG and neuroimaging techniques.
- Know how to classify fits and epilepsies.
- Learn the treatment options for epilepsies.
- Gain knowledge to assess patients and families with epilepsy and provide information on the cause, treatment, prognosis, implications and precautions at different stages in life.
- Gain knowledge of drug treatment of epilepsies in children, adolescents and adults.
- Learn the mechanisms of action, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of anti-epileptic drugs.
- Gain knowledge of the interactions, adverse effects and choice of anti-epileptic drug depending on the type of epilepsy or epileptic syndrome and the characteristics of the patient, dietary treatments and discontinuation of treatment with anti-epileptic drugs.
- Gain knowledge of epilepsies that are candidates for surgical treatment.
- Learn how to interpret the indications of pre-surgical assessment, prolonged video-EEG monitoring, neuropsychological assessment and neuroimaging or nuclear medicine tests.
- Learn the available techniques.
- Know how to interpret the results of surgery by etiology.
- Be able to follow-up the patient and manage drugs after surgery and palliative surgery.
- Know how to manage emergencies in situations of epilepsy, including handling of the child, adolescent and adult who is having an epileptic fit outside of the hospital, and know how to diagnose and treat convulsive and non-convulsive epileptic status.
- Learn the comorbidities of epilepsies, including mood and emotional regulation disorders and developmental and learning disorders.