The Primary Care of Seizure Disorders

The Primary Care of Seizure Disorders: A Practical Guide to the Evaluation and Comprehensive Management of Seizure Disorders is designed to help physicians who in the course of clinical practice care for patients who have epileptic seizures. The intention is to provide a thorough but concise treatment of the subject which may serve as a basic text as well as a handy reference source for solving problems as they arise on a case-by-case basis.
The book contains 10 chapters organized according to the sequence which clinical management often follows. These include differential diagnosis and genetic aspects of seizure disorders; the electroencephalographic evaluation; medical therapy of seizure disorders, including first aid and the treatment of status epilepticus; psychiatric aspects of epilepsy; problems of noncompliance; medical-legal aspects of epilepsy; and finding ancillary, community resources for patients, including voluntary organizations and patient and lay education.

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Preface

1. Seizure Disorders: Some Basic Considerations
   Statistics
   Intelligence
   Neurological Consultation
2. The Clinical Evaluation of Seizures
   Differential Diagnosis
   Seizures from Acquired Toxic Metabolic Disturbances
   Seizures Associated With Intracranial Infections
   Seizures Associated With Brain Diseases of Unknown Origin
   Acute Traumatic Seizures
   Management of the Single Seizure
   Classification of the Epilepsies
   Experimental Epilepsy
   Partial and Secondary Generalized Epilepsy
   Primary Generalized Epilepsies
   Evaluation of the Patient With Possible Seizures
   Seizures in Infancy and Early Childhood
3. Genetic Aspects of Epilepsy
   Chromosomal Abnormalities
   Mendelian Disorders
   Genetic Susceptibility
   Genetic Counseling
   Conclusion and Tables
4. Electroencephalography
   Source of the EEG
   Obtaining the EEG
   Requesting the EEG
   The EEG Report
   Electrogenesis of Seizures
   The EEG in Seizure Disorders
   Unusual EEG Patterns With Unproven Relationship to Epilepsy
   Medications and the EEG
   Sequence of the EEG Workup
   Glossary of Selected EEG Terms
5. Medical Treatment of Seizure Disorders
   Oral Drug Therapy
   Cutaneous Reactions to Anticonvulsants
   Other Considerations in Drug Therapy
   Surgical Therapy
   Tables
6. First Aid and Emergency Treatment of Status Epilepticus
   First Aid
   Status Epilepticus
   Convulsive Generalized Tonic-clonic Status
   Epilepticus
   Generalized Tonic Status and Myoclonic Status
   Absence Status
   Unilateral Status Epilepticus
   Partial Status Epilepticus
   Neonatal Status Epilepticus
7. Practical Psychiatric Aspects of Epilepsy
   Parents
   Siblings
   Epileptic Patient's Difficulties
   Differential Diagnosis
   Psychiatric Consultation
8. Noncompliance and the Management of Epilepsy
   Assessing Compliance and Noncompliance
   Reasons for Noncompliance
   Improving Compliance
9. Medical-Legal Aspects of Epilepsy
   Driving
   Special Education
   Employment
   Criminal Justice System
   Military Status
   Civil Litigation
   Medical Malpractice Implications of Epilepsy
10. Ancillary Management of Seizure Disorders
    Voluntary Organizations
    Patient and Lay Education
    Unemployment
    Index