Buccal Midazolam Administration and Seizure Management

Our seizure management and Buccal Midalozam training course offers an understanding of epilepsy, along with the simulated administration of rescue medication.

While Buccal Midazolam is the most frequently prescribed rescue medication for prolonged or cluster epilepsy seizures, our fully trained and qualified nurse instructors can also deliver bespoke seizure management and rescue medication administration training should your requirements also include the prescription and use of:

• Rectal diazepam
• Rectal paraldehyde

When faced with a patient or service user suffering from an epileptic seizure, fast action and the correct administration of medication is essential in order to treat the casualty effectively. Our experts are happy to offer their advice and deliver customised epilepsy and seizure management training programmes designed to meet your specific needs.

What does our Buccal Midazolam training and seizure management course cover?

Carefully developed in compliance with Joint Epilepsy Council training guidelines and standards for rescue medication, our epilepsy training course covers everything you need to know in order to assess the situation, and understand and administer rescue medication, including:

• Identifying and understanding emergency prolonged or cluster seizures
• Types of rescue medication currently available
• NICE guidelines for the treatment and management of epilepsy seizures
• The benefits and risks of rescue medication
• The Seizure Management Plan and rescue medication prescription
• The pros and cons of Buccal Midazolam, Rectal Diazepam and Rectal Paraldehyde
• Administering rescue medication (dependant on and specific to the local needs assessment)
• Administration aftercare and management
• Health and Safety requirements including storage of medication

Course duration

Because our epilepsy first aid training is tailored to your unique requirements, the duration of the one-day course varies between 3 – 6 hours. We’ll advise you of the running time once we’ve assessed your needs and provided our professional recommendations.

Assessment and certification

The course process consists of continual assessment by the course tutor, case studies, practical scenarios, OSCE's and workbook completion.

Guardian Angels Training will provide the necessary competency proformas required to ensure safe and evidenced-based clinical practice following completion of our seizure management and Buccal Midazolam/rescue medication training course – allowing the registered provider to ensure mandatory competency assessments are completed within the workplace by a nominated mentor/supervisor.

For more information regarding competency assessments or to request an onsite competency assessment conducted by one of our specialist registered nurse trainers, please get in touch and we’ll be happy to help.

Upon successful completion of the course, delegates will receive an NHS Certificate of Competence valid for 2 years from issue.

Please note: this seizure management and Buccal Midalozam training course is only available to employers such as...

• NHS Trusts
• CCGs
• Care providers
• Independent hospitals

...that can provide training facilities onsite for groups of 4 - 12 delegates per training session.