First Aid Steps During a Seizure

First Aid Steps During a Seizure

Seizure first aid involves protecting the patient from injury, timing the seizure duration, and identifying features that require immediate emergency services activation. No medication should be administered by a bystander unless prescribed rescue medication is...
Can a Child With Epilepsy Live Normally?

Can a Child With Epilepsy Live Normally?

Most children with epilepsy achieve adequate seizure control with appropriate medication and attend mainstream education without significant neurological impairment. Outcome is not uniform across epilepsy types. It depends on syndrome, underlying aetiology, age of...
When Should Epilepsy Consider Surgery?

When Should Epilepsy Consider Surgery?

Seizures that persist despite two appropriately chosen anti-seizure medications define drug-resistant epilepsy by ILAE criteria. Around 30 percent of epilepsy patients reach this threshold. A third medication achieves seizure freedom in fewer than five percent of them...
Can Surgery Cure Drug-Resistant Epilepsy?

Can Surgery Cure Drug-Resistant Epilepsy?

Epilepsy surgery achieves complete seizure freedom in 60 to 80 percent of appropriately selected drug-resistant patients. Surgical outcome depends on seizure focus location, underlying pathology, and completeness of resection. Surgery is reserved for drug-resistant...