Buccal training is essential to ensure care workers, nurses and others involved with caring for people living with epilepsy are capable of administering emergency medication effectively and safely to protect the individual who has epilepsy from suffering harm, while helping avoid medication deaths which account for many deaths among this population.
Improved Breathing Patterns
Improper breathing techniques can lead to oxygen deprivation and trigger or worsen seizures, while buccal training techniques help improve breathing patterns resulting in more oxygen being delivered directly into the brain and body.
Epilepsy patients frequently struggle with breathing due to unpredictable seizures, so buccal training helps promote deep, rhythmic breathing to increase airflow and ease stress levels. This e-test is designed for healthcare professionals supporting people living with epilepsy who need advanced training in administering emergency medication such as buccal midazolam. This may include nurses, carers and allied health and social care workers whose risk assessments or care plans require them to administer such lifesaving treatments should they experience prolonged tonic clonic seizures.
This training will teach delegates to administer this treatment to their patients using a rapid dissolving mucoadhesive buccal tablet, providing a safe and convenient alternative to rectal diazepam with no aspiration risk - making it the preferred rescue treatment for status epilepticus.
Enhanced Muscle Control
Status Epilepticus occurs when prolonged seizures leave muscles weak and body systems at risk of losing control, potentially resulting in loss of consciousness, hypoxia, hyponatraemia and potassium imbalance, consumptive coagulopathy, rhabdomyolysis and multi-organ failure.
Buccal midazolam training can help avoid such complications by equipping individuals to administer it confidently during emergency situations, thus decreasing risks associated with prolonged seizures and thus making treatment safer than rectal diazepam which may be difficult to administer, particularly when unconscious or experiencing shock.
Our Buccal Midazolam Training meets ESNA (Epilepsy Nurses Association) guidelines, equipping healthcare professionals with the confidence and competence to administer lifesaving rescue medication with confidence and competence. For an in-depth understanding of epilepsy medication administration, take advantage of our Epilepsy Medication Administration training that also covers oral, injectable, rectal methods of administration as well as providing opportunities for risk assessments and individual care plans to be care mandatory training.
Reduced Stress and Anxiety
Living with epilepsy often comes with increased levels of stress and anxiety due to its unpredictable seizures, making daily management of this condition even more challenging. Employing relaxation techniques like controlled breathing or mindfulness meditation may help relieve these symptoms and assist individuals in better controlling their condition. Buccal training involves exercises to strengthen the muscles in the mouth and throat, improving coordination and control over breathing, swallowing, speaking, and swallowing. This technique helps avoid seizures by increasing airflow while minimising oxygen deprivation during convulsive status epilepticus episodes.
This course is tailored towards healthcare professionals and school nurses who may need to administer rescue medication for individuals experiencing prolonged seizures (known as status epilepticus). The training equips them to do this safely and with confidence, following best practice ESNA guidelines. This video-based course also offers learners the chance to complete an optional standardised assessment at the end of their learning experience and immediately download their certificate after passing it.
Empowerment and Self-Management
Epilepsy patients are at high risk of coexisting mental health conditions that impair quality of life, access to care and social inclusion. Buccal training can help people self-manage and increase outcomes for better results.
Healthcare professionals need to feel confident about administering Buccal Midazolam (the rescue medication used to treat seizures and status epilepticus), effectively. By training healthcare workers together with people living with epilepsy, training can build empathy, increase communication and create a collaborative atmosphere which benefits everyone involved.
Information on epilepsy can empower individuals to manage their condition more independently, such as by identifying seizure triggers and keeping first aid close at hand, as well as having clear routes of referral in case of emergency. To be most effective, this approach requires both a whole-of-society response as well as individual consideration addressing all needs related to epilepsy across its lifespan.
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