Paediatric Hypersomnia and Narcolepsy – Early Detection and Treatment
Excessive daytime sleepiness in children is not always a result of poor sleep habits and may signal an underlying sleep disorder such as narcolepsy.
This course provides a practical approach to distinguishing pathological sleepiness from non-specific fatigue, recognising the characteristic features of paediatric narcolepsy, and asking the right questions to identify symptoms that children may struggle to describe themselves.
By completing this course, you should be able to:
- 01Differentiate pathological excessive daytime sleepiness from non-specific fatigue in children.
- 02Identify key symptoms and red flag features of paediatric narcolepsy.
- 03Use age-appropriate, symptom-based questioning to identify narcolepsy features in children.
Paediatric Hypersomnia – How to detect narcolepsy in children and adolescents
Paediatric narcolepsy can present with symptoms that overlap with a range of neurological and psychological disorders, making diagnosis challenging.
In this short, interactive microlearning module, explore how to identify the key features of paediatric narcolepsy and distinguish it from other conditions.
Faculty
Prof. Gringras has spent more than twenty years caring for children whose sleep has gone wrong, and for their families. In 2003 he founded the children's sleep medicine department at Evelina London, now the busiest paediatric sleep service in the UK, which runs a national narcolepsy service. His research focuses on sleep in children with autism, ADHD, epilepsy, Down's syndrome and other neurodevelopmental conditions, including new work using machine learning to diagnose narcolepsy at home. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, has advised NICE, the MHRA and the European Medicines Agency, and is a past President of the International Pediatric Sleep Association.