Reséndiz-Aparicio JC, Pérez-García JC, Olivas-Peña E, García-Cuevas E, Roque-Villavicencio YL, Hernández-Hernández M, Castro-Macías JI, Rayo-Mares JD

Language: English
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ABSTRACT

This clinical guideline on epilepsy contains levels of evidence and recommendations based on the scientific method. Its primary function is to provide emergency medicine physicians a clear diagnostic approach when faced with a pediatric or adult patient with epileptic seizures (ES) or epilepsy. The objective is to unify criteria that will guarantee integral health care, based on adequate decision-making, benefiting the patient through the individualized analysis of proper anamnesis, physical examination, precise indication of laboratory, and image diagnostic tests that yield the pertinent clinical and pharmacological treatment for opportune interventions, avoiding complications, and whenever possible, the recurrence of the ES.

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