CHaT Virtual

Event Notes:

Children’s Headache Training (CHaT) has been designed to improve knowledge and skills amongst health professionals who care for children and young people with headache. By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Take a headache-focussed history and undertake a relevant examination
• Classify headache based on this information alone (reducing reliance on investigation)
• Learn about pathophysiology of headache
• Know which elements of the history / examination mandate brain imaging or other tests
• Diagnose and manage migraine, migraine variants and other primary headache types
• Diagnose secondary headaches and take initial steps in their management

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

CHaT has been developed for:

• Consultant Paediatricians and paediatric trainees
• Consultants in paediatric emergency medicine & emergency medicine trainees
• General Practitioners and GP trainees
• Health professionals working within a pain service/headache service eg psychologists & nurses
• Consultant Paediatric Neurologists and Paediatric Neurology Trainees