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Scoping Question: For adults and children living with HIV, which antiepileptic medications (such as phenobarbital, phenytoin, carbamazepine or valproic acid) produce benefits and/or harms when compared to a placebo or controls?
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SCOPING QUESTION: In adults with established status epilepticus (i.e., seizures persisting after the first-line treatment with benzodiazepines [or benzodiazepines-resistant status epilepticus]), which anti-epileptic medications are associated with cessation of seizures and reduced adverse effects)?
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Received: 16/11/2013 - Accepted: 23/03/2014 - Published: 27/07/2014
Epilepsia, 55(4):475–482, 2014
doi: 10.1111/epi.12550
Q 10: In adults and children with epilepsy, which psychological interventions used as adjunctive therapies with antiepileptic drugs when compared to placebo/comparator produce benefits/harm in specified outcomes?
Q4: Can convulsive epilepsy be diagnosed at first level care by a non-specialist health care provider in low and middle income country settings?
Q12: Should the treatment be similar in individuals with intellectual disability and epilepsy compared to people with epilepsy only?
Q3: Can febrile seizures (simple or complex) be managed at first or second level care by non-specialist health care providers in low and middle income country settings? What is the role of diagnostic tests in the management of febrile seizures by non-specialists in low and middle income settings? Fo...
Bulletin de l'Organisation mondiale de la Santé 2012;90:871-871A. doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.113183
Bulletin de l'Organisation mondiale de la Santé Numéros précédents Volume 90: 2012 Volume 90, Numéro 12, décembre 2012, 869-944
Epilepsies: diagnosis and management
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Clinical guideline | Published: 11 January 2012 | nice.org.uk/guidance/cg137
www.jogh.org • doi: 10.7189/jogh.02.020405 ~ December 2012 • Vol. 2 No. 2 • 020405
Q8. Should Anti-Epileptic Drug (AED) treatment be started after first unprovoked seizure in non-specialist health settings?
Q5: What is the added advantage of doing an electroencephalography (EEG) in people with convulsive epilepsy in non- specialist settings in low and middle income countries?
BMC Medicine201210:107
https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-10-107© Katchanov and Birbeck; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012
Received: 10 July 2012Accepted: 24 September 2012Published: 24 September 2012
In 2011, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) mental health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) r...
Q 7: For adults and children with convulsive epilepsy, which standard antiepileptic drugs (phenobarbital, phenytoin, carbamazepine, valproic acid) when compared to placebo/a comparator produce benefits/harm in the specified outcomes?
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Q11: 11a). In women with epilepsy, should antiepileptic therapy be prescribed as monotherapy or polytherapy to decrease the risk of fetal malformations?
11b). Does the use of folic acid preconceptually decrease the risk of foetal malformations in women with epilepsy?
11c). Do phenytoin, phenobarbi...
Q6: What is the added advantage of doing neuroimaging in people with convulsive epilepsy in non-specialist settings in low and middle income countries?
