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