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The Epilepsy Prescriber's Guide to Antiepileptic Drugs

The Epilepsy Prescriber's Guide to Antiepileptic Drugs

The Epilepsy Prescriber's Guide to Antiepileptic Drugs

Philip N. Patsalos, Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Buckinghamshire, UK
Blaise F. D. Bourgeois, Harvard Medical School, Boston
June 2010
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    Prescriber's Guide to Antiepileptic Drugs provides a practical and concise reference guide for use by all those clinicians and allied health professionals that treat or care for patients with epilepsy. In full colour throughout, this volume presents the antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in alphabetical order and for each AED the information is divided into eight coloured sections: general therapeutics, pharmacokinetics, interaction profile, adverse effects, dosing and use, special populations, and suggested reading. This handy pocket guide will be an excellent companion for all clinicians that treat patients with epilepsy.

    • All drugs licensed for clinical use are included: each drug is presented in the same format with coloured sub-sections to allow ready comparison of each drug
    • The content of each sub-section is comprehensive, allowing the reader to access all relevant information quickly and easily
    • Includes summary tables of seizure indications, common adverse effects and drug interactions for a quick reference guide to treatment decisions

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    June 2010
    Adobe eBook Reader
    9780511730931
    0 pages
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    31 b/w illus.
    This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • Acth
    • Acetazolamide
    • Carbamazephine
    • Clobazam
    • Clonazepam
    • Diazepam
    • Ethosuximide
    • Felbamate
    • Fosphenytoin
    • Gabapentin
    • Lacosamide
    • Lamotrigine
    • Levetiracetam
    • Lorazepam
    • Methsuximide
    • Midazolam
    • Oxcarbazepine
    • Paraldehyde
    • Phenobarbital
    • Phenytoin
    • Piracetam
    • Pregabalin
    • Primidone
    • Rufinamide
    • Stiripentol
    • Sulthiame
    • Tiagabine
    • Topiramate
    • Valproate
    • Vigabatrin
    • Zonisamide
    • Abbreviations
    • Index.
      Authors
    • Philip N. Patsalos , Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Buckinghamshire, UK

      Philip N. Patsalos is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Consultant Clinical Pharmacologist, Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Institute of Neurology, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and The National Society for Epilepsy, Chalfont St Peter, UK.

    • Blaise F. D. Bourgeois , Harvard Medical School, Boston

      Blaise F. D. Bourgeois is Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Director, Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology, William G. Lennox Chair in Pediatric Epilepsy, Children's Hospital Boston, MA, USA.