Seizure and Epilepsy Care

Patrick Landazuri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Nancy Lacuey Lecumberri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology, at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Laura Vilella Bertran is an Intracranial Electroencephalography Fellow in the Department of Neurology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. Mark Farrenburg is a Neurologist/Epileptologist at Cape Neurology Specialists, Saint Francis Healthcare System and adjunct faculty in the Department of Neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Samden Lhatoo is a Professor of Neurology at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Dr Lhatoo is the John P. and Katherine G. McGovern Distinguished University Professor of Neurology at McGovern Medical School. Dr. Lhatoo serves as Director of the Texas Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and Co-Director of the Texas Institute of Restorative Neurotechnologies.

1. How do I evaluate a first time seizure?; 2. How do I make an epilepsy diagnosis?; 3. What anti-seizure medications (ASMs) treat epilepsy and how do I pick?; 4. How can I best use EEG for treating epilepsy patients?; 5. What are common epilepsy imaging findings in new onset and chronic epilepsy care?; 6. How do I care for patients in the emergency department and inpatient settings; 7. How do I manage epilepsy emergencies like status epilepticus?; 8. What is the best long-term treatment plan for epilepsy patients as an outpatient?; 9. What to do when your patient fails two anti-seizure medicines: managing drug resistant epilepsy as an outpatient; 10. Non-epileptic events and general psychiatric care for epilepsy patients; 11.What are essential pediatric epilepsy clinical diagnoses and treatment plans?