SICKO. Development of a Multi-Disciplinary Training-Concept for Paediatric Oncology.

Treating children with cancer requires multiple different skills. For the healthcare personnel (HCP) in Germany the practice of ongoing training to improve professional skills is almost non-existent. Therefore, we developed a programme called 'SICKO' to support HCPs skills and attitudes by means of a multidisciplinary workshop.

Short-term sleep EEG recordings after partial sleep deprivation as a routine procedure in order to uncover epileptic phenomena: an evaluation of 719 EEG recordings.

All night sleep deprivation prior to an EEG registration causes some inconvenience not only to the organization of the EEG department but presents a burden on the patients as well as their family members, and for these reasons is not suitable to be frequently employed as a routine procedure. As an alternative, we performed short-term sleep recordings in the early afternoon following a partial sleep deprivation of the patients during the preceding night. This method was well accepted by the patients and their family.

["Epileptic" spiked vertex potentials in brief sleep after sleep reduction].

Patients with suspected seizure disorders frequently show graphoelements which can be interpreted as the expression of a disposition for epilepsy. These sharp vertex elements were evident in 54 out of 719 short term sleep recordings, more often in children than in adults. 49 times they coincided with typical epileptic discharges such as sharp waves, spikes or spike waves in the same recording.