Advanced Course A.Y. 2023/2024
Pediatric Electroencephalography
Open EnrollmentPediatric Electroencephalography
- Academic Coordinator Andrea Finocchi
- Didactic Coordinator Lucia Fusco
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The Course is finalized to reach upgrade and qualification in Pediatric Electroencephalography.
The Course foresees distance training, an internship and practical activities, to be performed at the Neurophisiology Unit of Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital.
The course has got the objective to develop the specific competencies for the identification of:
- EEG waking and sleep phisiological patterns of the neonatal, young-adult age
- EEG pathological patterns, focal and/or generic, of the focal lesional pathologies and epilepsies
- EEG pathological patterns of the metabolic, infectious, anorexia, severe and mild encephalopathies
- Electroclincal patterns of the most common epilepsy crisis and syndromes
DIDACTICS:
The Course is fully held online.
Programme
- Clinical Governance
- CNS Malformations, Neurocutaneous syndromes
- Neonatal Neurology
- Metabolic and Neurodegenerative diseases
- CNS Infectious pathologies
- Epilepsy and Cephalalgy
- Neurological emergencies
- Cognitive neurosciences, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disturbs
- NS Tumors
- Hereditary and inflammatory neuropathies, myopathies and pathologies of the neuromuscular transmission
- CNS vascular injuries
- Movement disorders
- CNS inflammatory diseases and demyelinating disease
Final exam
NB:
Due to the temporary suspension of frequencies at the Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, caused by the ongoing national health emergency, every Wednesday and Friday from 5pm to 7pm, an in-depth online lesson is available, conducted by Prof. Lucia Fusco, on the Zoom platform.
To receive the link, contact Prof. Fusco via e-mail at: lucia.fusco@opbg.net
- Clinical Governance
- Elements of Pediatrics
- Brain maturation from childhood to adolescence: the normal EEG, sleep / wake cycle, nonspecific abnormal pattern
- The newborn and premature: physiological and pathological EEG pattern
- EEG in vascular and inflammatory encephalopathies
- EEG in congenital and acquired metabolic encephalopathies
- Epileptic encephalopathies: syndromes and diseases
- Age-related epileptic syndromes: EEG in Idiopathic epilepsies
- EEG in epileptic syndormes associated with intellectual disability
- Status epilepticus: recognition of etiology and EEG pattern
- Coma and brain death
Final Exam
Costs
The Course costs: € 1.500 (for twelve months)
Payment will be split in 2 installments (see announcement of the current academic year)
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Durata e articolazioni
The Course lasts twelve months.
The educational activity foresees 20 ECTS.
The Course is fully held online. For specific information related to the didactics, please contact the Didactic Coordinator Lucia Fusco <lucia.fusco@opbg.net>.
Enrolment to university courses (or equivalent), finalized in developing professional skills in the medical field, wheter in Italy or abroad, gives the right to be exempted from ECM training. The lenght of the exemption cannot exceed the legal duration of the course and must coincide with the period of attendance.
The exemption does not give you credits, buti t reduces the mandatory individual training.
Requirements
The advanced Course is addressed to Medicine graduates holding a Residency in (one of the following):
- Pediatrics
- Child Neuropsychiatry
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Psychiatry