Acute Virtual

Event Notes:

This is a practical course which aims to teach emergency medicine staff to recognise children presenting with common acute neurological conditions and what next steps to undertake in the early management. It is taught by Consultants in Paediatric Neurology, General Paediatrics and Paediatric Emergency Medicine, in large group lectures and small group workshops.

Learning Objectives: 

This course will cover secondary headache disorders and the red flags to recognise, the assessment and management of the confused child, the assessment and management of the child with decreased conscious level, management of raised ICP, when is it safe to LP a child, an appreciation of abnormal movements and of gait abnormalities in children presenting to ED, management of ‘acute brain attacks’, and how to choose appropriate neuroimaging in the acute setting.

Background:

It is estimated that around a third of all paediatric emergencies are neurological and around a quarter of all admissions to PICU are primarily neurological (not counting the large number of PICU patients who develop a neurological complication of a non-neurological disorder). In addition, a significant number of PICU admissions are the result of medical complications of neurological disability.