Swiss medical weekly
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Swiss medical weekly · Oct 2004
Practice Guideline GuidelineTreatment and care of elderly persons who are in need of care.
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Swiss medical weekly · Oct 2004
Survey of management of first-ever seizures in a hospital based community.
Epidemiological studies focusing on first-ever seizures have been carried out mainly on community based populations. However, since hospital populations may display varying clinical features, we prospectively analysed patients with first-ever seizure in a hospital based community to evaluate prognosis and the role of complementary investigations in the decision to administer antiepileptic drugs (AED). ⋯ Patients evaluated acutely for first-ever seizure in a hospital setting have severe underlying clinical conditions apparently related to their relatively poor prognosis. Neuroimaging represents the most important paraclinical test in predicting both treatment administration and outcome.