This webinar brings together experienced clinicians that will discuss the issue of people with epilepsy who drink too much. This patient group attend emergency departments repeatedly, have poor cognitive, seizure, and mortality outcomes, and are difficult to engage. Despite neurologists being frequently asked to see them as inpatients, there is little academic discussion of their management.
Elizabeth Galiza, Epileptologist at St George's, will discuss the complexities of alcohol, seizures and epilepsy treatments. Yvonne Langan, who has been a champion in SUDEP research in Dublin, will talk to us about this and in particular how alcohol plays into the mortality rates in this group. Then Killian Welch, who works as a neuropsychiatrist in Edinburgh, will discuss how we can manage this difficult group of patients at the interface of neurology and psychiatry services.
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Standard pricing available until 26 January 2021.
| RSM Member | RSM Trainee | RSM Student |
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| £12.00 | £9.00 | £6.00 |
| Non - Member | Trainee | Student | AHP / Nurse / Midwife |
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| £20.00 | £15.00 | £10.00 | £5.00 |
Epileptologist, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Shirley is a passionate collector and scholar of Chinese export porcelain. In both endeavors, Shirley Mueller has a long publication history focusing on neuroscience and porcelain. In her book, Inside the Head of a Collector: Neuropsychological Forces at Play, she combines her two passions, science, and art.
Edinburgh-based Neuropsychiatrist, UK
Killian works in brain injury rehabilitation, as well as running neuropsychiatry outpatient clinics and providing liaison psychiatry input to neurology and rehabilitation inpatients. His psychiatric training included substance misuse psychiatry and he is a qualified CBT practitioner.
He has a particular interest in psychological interventions to improve wellbeing in chronic neurological conditions, the relationship between cannabis and psychosis, management of substance misuse in neurological conditions and the complications of alcohol misuse.
Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Yvonne trained in Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology in Dublin, London and Newcastle upon Tyne. She has a particular interest in SUDEP.
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The RSM wishes to offer healthcare professionals continued learning opportunities during the coronavirus pandemic. The RSM’s weekly COVID-19 Series webinars remain free of charge, while there will be small charges to register for other online education. These fees will enable the RSM to continue its programme of activities and will apply during the course of the pandemic.
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