Programme

Programme

Details will follow shortly.

Main topics

  • Patient and family perspectives — surviving status epilepticus and its impact on patients and families
  • Biomarkers of brain injury in status epilepticus — molecular, serum and cerebrospinal fluid markers of brain damage and neurodegeneration.
  • Advances in neuroimaging — MRI and perfusion imaging, including imaging of neonatal status epilepticus.
  • Early seizure treatment and prevention of status epilepticus — rapid intervention, drug delivery devices and alternative administration routes.
  • Status epilepticus in specific clinical settings — epilepsy, developmental and epileptic encephalopathies, neonates, stroke and traumatic brain injury.
  • EEG diagnosis and monitoring — neurophysiology, criteria for non-convulsive status epilepticus and rapid EEG in emergency care.
  • New treatments and acute management strategies — ketamine, neurosteroids, emerging antiseizure therapies and the timing of intubation