Quick Study: Capturing the Diagnosis

A picture’s worth a thousand words: Video and clinical validation of epilepsy.

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This program incorporates the use of video-based learning to differentiate seizure types and identify appropriate neuroimaging protocols. The program is ideal for both novice practitioners and those practitioners who would like to enhance clinical skills relating to diagnosis.

Case Support

Healthcare providers can present your de-identified case for advice, support and written recommendations.

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This Quick Study series is facilitated by McMaster’s Children’s Hospital.

Syllabus

Focal vs. Generalized Onset

Differentiate between focal and generalized epilepsies
Distinguish between absence seizures and focal seizures

Motor vs. Non-motor Seizures

Identify key clinical features that help to differentiate seizure types that manifest with non-motor semiology
Outline key features of focal and generalized onset seizure types with predominantly motor semiology (e.g., tonic, clonic, hyper motor)

Neuroimaging

Describe when to order appropriate neuroimaging protocols for patients with epilepsy
Recognize when to order further investigations based on EEG

Video-based learning

Describe seizure types
Differentiate between seizures and epilepsy
Identify the semiology of epileptic seizures using standardized ILAE terminology and classification systems

Epilepsy and Neurocutaneous Syndromes

Discuss the correlation between epilepsy and some neurocutaneous disorders
Identify clinical presentation and management of epilepsy in neurocutaneous disorders such as Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), neurofibromatosis type 1, and Sturge-Weber syndrome