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This CME course will help physicians improve the assessment and care of patients with major epileptic syndromes.
Topics covered in this course include:
- Epilepsy Definition, Diagnostic Dilemmas, and Determining Remission in Clinical Practice
- Genetic Epilepsies: Clinical Recognition and Identification
- Classification of Generalized and Focal “Seizures”
- Distinctive Epilepsies: Neuro-cutaneous Disorders, Hypothalamic Hamartoma
- Epilepsies and Electroclinical Syndromes: Adolescents and Adults
- MRI in Epilepsy: Structural and Functional MRI
After completing this course, physicians will better be able to:
- Review the essential pathophysiology and classification of the epilepsies
- Evaluate the pharmacology and action of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs)
- Illustrate major epileptic syndromes across the age spectrum
- Discuss epilepsy management in women of childbearing age
- Outline surgical treatment procedures for patients with medically refractory epilepsy
- Interpret EEG in the ICU and treatment of status epilepticus