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| Author | : Eileen P. G. Vining |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2022-12-27 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 1421445093 |
Seizures and Epilepsy in Children is the go-to resource for caregivers and families with children who have epilepsy and seizures.
| Author | : Erin Conway, MS, RN, CPNP |
| Publisher | : Springer Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2015-12-02 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 1617052361 |
For the parent of a child with epilepsy, an easy-to-read guide to understanding and managing the disorder while helping your child achieve and maintain a high quality of life. From a leading neurologist, experienced nurse practitioner, and registered dietician comes the complete guide to managing your childís life with epilepsy. Epilepsy in Children offers the practical advice and information you need to manage your childís seizures safely and effectively, understand the latest treatment options, and find hope for a seizure-free future. Key Features: Get the right diagnosis for your child and the correct treatment to reduce the frequency of seizures faster Learn the benefits and risks of pharmaceutical, surgical, and alternative therapies including the ketogenic diet Help your child maintain a normal life at school, with friends, and in sports and other activities Navigate the transitions from infancy and childhood, to puberty, to becoming a young adult
| Author | : John M. Freeman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Seizures can be terrifying. Here is the complete resource parents who need the medical facts about seizures and epilepsy in children.
| Author | : Layla Reid |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Epileptics |
| ISBN | : 9781842890196 |
Written and illustrated by a seven-year-old girl, called Layla Reid, this book informs young children about how to deal with having a parent who is epileptic and what to do in an emergency.
| Author | : James W. Wheless |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012-12-17 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780470741238 |
This book provides the contemporary, caring guidance you need to diagnose and manage seizures in a young patient. Beginning with an overview of the classification of seizure syndromes, the authors take a practical approach to a common but complex clinical challenge. Aimed at both professionals and trainees in neurology, this book will also be a useful guide for all primary health professionals caring for pediatric patients with this condition. It is intended as a foundation for further study into pediatric epilepsy and to serve as a quick, up-to-date reference for the recognition, diagnosis, basic understanding, evaluation and management of this condition in children and adolescents.
| Author | : Georgia D. Montouris |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0195330900 |
Nearly three million people in the United States live with epilepsy every day and another 180,000 Americans develop epilepsy every year. Around the world, more than 60 million people have epilepsy. Epilepsy impacts everyone in different ways, as well as their families, friends and professional caregivers. This enlightening book presents the firsthand personal accounts of children with seizure disorders and their parents. In their own words, these children and parents vividly describe the experiences of handling the crisis of the initial seizure, adjusting to the diagnosis of epilepsy, coping with seizures, managing medications and side effects, and dealing with health care providers, teachers, schoolmates, siblings, and friends. Their stories reveal the terror, uncertainty, and frustration felt by children an dparents after an initial seizure or a diagnosis of epilepsy and document the ongoing trials, tribulations, and triumphs of coping with seizures, medication schedules and side effects, health care providers and hospitals, schoolmates, siblings, relatives and friends. These accounts provide realistic insights into the myriad issues encountered in living with childhood epilepsy. The book also includes a straightforward medical discussion of childhood seizures, written in layperson's terms; a glossary of medical terms; and a guide for schoolteachers and parents.
| Author | : Sheila J Wallace |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 2004-02-27 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1444114085 |
Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder of childhood, occurring both in children whose physical and cognitive states are otherwise normal as well as being a facet of a more generalised and severe brain disease. There are many manifestations of epilepsy and, therefore, a diversity of factors in underlying pathology, responses to treatment
| Author | : Kim Gosselin |
| Publisher | : Jayjo Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2001-09 |
| Genre | : Diseases |
| ISBN | : 9781891383168 |
Uses a simple story about a young girl at school to present information about epilepsy.
| Author | : Blaise F. Bourgeois, MD |
| Publisher | : Demos Medical Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 922 |
| Release | : 2007-12-16 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1934559865 |
The extensively updated third edition of Pediatric Epilepsy: Diagnosis and Therapy continues to be the definitive volume on the diagnosis, treatment, classification, and management of the childhood epilepsies. Written by nearly 100 international leaders in the field, this new edition progresses logically with major sections on the basic mechanisms of the disease, classification, epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis, and age-related syndromes of epilepsy. The core of the new third edition is its completely updated section on antiepileptic drugs, including an in-depth discussion of dosage considerations, drug toxicity, teratogenicity, and drug interactions, with recommendations for optimal combinations when multiple drug therapy is required. Features unique to the third edition include: Expanded section on the basic science and mechanism of epilepsy Completely updated drug chapters, including newly released drugs and those in development Expanded chapters on vagus nerve stimulation and surgical treatment Expanded section on co-morbidities The third edition includes 21 new chapters, including discussions of: epileptic channelopathies; epileptogenic cerebral cortical malformation; epilepsy genes; etiologies and workup; evidence-based medicine issues related to drug selection; Levetiracetam; Sulthiame; Pregabalin; herbal medications; basic and advanced imaging; immunotherapy issues; vagus nerve stimulation therapy; cognitive and psychiatric co-morbidities and educational placement; and psychosocial aspects of epilepsy.
| Author | : Chrysostomos P. Panayiotopoulos |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 570 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : |
This book gives an exhaustive account of the classification and management of epileptic disorders. It provides clear didactic guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of epileptic syndromes and seizures through thirteen chapters, complemented by a pharmacopoeia and CD ROM of video-EEGs.
