First Seizure

Many questions arise after a first seizure. What caused it? Should treatment be started? Is it epilepsy?

• NICE: Epilepsies: diagnosis and management

• Evidence-based guideline: Management of an unprovoked first seizure in adults: Report of the Guideline Development Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society (2015). Krumholtz et al. Neurology 2015;84:1705–1713

• Georgian Protocol: Management of the first unprovoked seizure in adults. (პირველი არაპროვოცირებული გულყრის მართვა). Georgian Ministry of Health Guidelines and Protocols on Epilepsy (2017)

• Recommendation for a definition of acute symptomatic seizure: Report from the ILAE Commission on Epidemiology (2010) Beghi et al, Epilepsia 2010;51(4):671–675. PDF

• First Seizure (Epilepsy Foundation, 2015)

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