Evaluation of New Onset Seizures
The Neurotransmitters: Clinical Neurology Education05/27/22 • 23 min
The question of what to do with new onset seizures is a very common one in neurologic practice. Here we'll go through some common questions such as:
Was it a seizure?
What can mimic seizures?
What kind of evaluation should be done to assess for the risk of a second seizure?
Did this podcast answer some of your most common questions about first time seizures? If so, great! If not, what aspects need more fully covered? Your feedback is always appreciated!
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05/27/22 • 23 min
The Neurotransmitters: Clinical Neurology Education - Evaluation of New Onset Seizures
Transcript
Dr. Michael Kentris [00:00:00]:
Welcome to The Neurotransmitters, a podcast about everything neurology with the goal of reducing your neurophobia. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Kentris, and today we're talking about evaluating someone with a first time seizure. So let's start off with some basic definitions. What is a seizure? So in the journals they would define it as, quote, a transient occurrence of signs and or symptoms due to abnormal, excessive or synchronous activity in the brain. So th
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