The Management of Epilepsy in Children and Adults

Description

This review describes the new International League Against Epilepsy classiﬁcation of seizure types and epilepsies, which has been updated to reﬂect the major advances in the understanding of the biology of seizure disorders.

It also discusses the management of epilepsy in children and adults, highlighting recent advances. To provide an evidence-based review, the MJA searched PubMed for original and review articles, as well as specialist society guidelines up to 31 August 2017. They also identiﬁed relevant publications from the reference lists of retrieved articles and their ﬁles.

Learning Outcomes

Know of the new classification of epileptic seizures and epilepsies recently published by the International League Against Epilepsy, to reflect the major scientiﬁc advances in our understanding of the epilepsies since the last formal classiﬁcation 28 years ago
Inform on most current managements of epilepsy, including treatment options for drug-resistant epilepsy
Become aware of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy

Authors: Piero Perucca, Ingrid E Scheffer, Michelle Kiley

Article Type: Narrative review

Provider name

Medical Journal of Australia

Provider number

N/A

Type

Reading: journal; textbook; book; literature review

Duration

1h : 0m

CPD Points/Hours

MBA: 1h : 0m

Topic

Nervous System Diseases

Audience

Medical Practitioner, Medical Student, Doctor-in-Training, Non-Vocationally Registered, Nurse / Midwife, Occupational Therapist, Pharmacist, Psychologist, Researcher, Retired, Specialist - Other, Specialist General Practitioner

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