| Description |
278 pages |
| Contents |
Epilepsy: definitions and background -- Types of seizures -- Epilepsies with onset at all ages: symptomatic and probably symptomatic focal epilepsies -- Epilepsies with neonatal onset (birth to 2 months): focal and generalized epilepsies -- Epilepsies with onset during infancy (2 to 12 months) -- Epilepsies with childhood onset (1 to 12 years) -- Epilepsies with juvenile and adult onset (12 years and older) -- Seizures not necessarily requiring a diagnosis of epilepsy -- Diagnosis and differential diagnosis -- Management -- Antiepileptic drugs -- Status epilepticus -- Special considerations in women and the elderly -- Counseling |
| Summary |
"This best-selling pocket reference, thoroughly updated in this Fourth Edition, is a practical, point-of-care guide to the diagnosis and management of epilepsy. Presented in a handy, easy-to-use outline format, it provides complete, clinically focused information on seizure classification, epilepsies with different ages of onset, situation-related epilepsy, differential diagnosis, and all available drug treatments including dosages, side effects, and drug interactions."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2004 |
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Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Epilepsy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Epilepsy.
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Epilepsy.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbook.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Holmes, Gregory L.
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| LC no. |
2007047307 |
| ISBN |
0781773970 |
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