The Primary Care of Seizure Disorders : A Practical Guide to the Evaluation and Comprehensive Management 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. Content: Inside Front Cover , Page i Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv COAUTHORS , Pages ix-x ACKNOWLEDGMENTS , Pages xi-xii PREFACE , Page xiii 1 - SEIZURE DISORDERS: SOME BASIC CONSIDERATIONS , Pages 1-3 2 - THE CLINICAL EVALUATION OF SEIZURES , Pages 5-66 3 - GENETIC ASPECTS OF EPILEPSY , Pages 67-89 4 - ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY , Pages 91-110 5 - MEDICAL TREATMENT OF SEIZURE DISORDERS , Pages 111-150 6 - FIRST AID AND EMERGENCY TREATMENT OF STATUS EPILEPTICUS , Pages 151-164 7 - PRACTICAL PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS OF EPILEPSY , Pages 165-175 8 - NONCOMPLIANCE AND THE MANAGEMENT OF EPILEPSY , Pages 177-182 9 - MEDICAL-LEGAL ASPECTS OF EPILEPSY , Pages 183-196 10 - ANCILLARY MANAGEMENT OF SEIZURE DISORDERS , Pages 197-201 INDEX , Pages 203-210