Competency information

Details

Annotate and interpret a paediatric EEG recording, recognising the normal features (wake and sleep) and abnormalities in paediatric epileptic syndromes and other conditions requiring EEG

Considerations

  • Correct annotation of recordings and other patient documentation and the importance of accuracy, legibility and completeness
  • Normal and abnormal features in EEG, awake and asleep
  • Maturation of EEG
  • Manipulation of data
  • Anticonvulsant therapy used in paediatrics
  • Identification of the degree of urgency of clinical report
  • Hospital and community-based services for patients
  • Abnormalities associated with paediatric epileptic syndromes and other conditions requiring EEG, eg anoxic/hypoxic episodes

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 2 Outcome Interpret the data and produce high-quality reports with respect to paediatric EEG