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A Complete Guide to Achieving Seizure Freedom for Your Patients

About This Series

The goal of treatment in patients with epileptic seizures is to achieve a seizure-free status with tolerable adverse effects. Despite advances in anti-seizure medications (ASMs) over the past 25 years, more than a third of patients with epilepsy continue to experience uncontrolled seizures. In addition, seizure control with subsequent ASMs diminishes. By the time a third and fourth ASM are tried, the rate of seizure freedom is 1.0% and 0.4%, respectively. These resources will provide critical tools that clinicians need to assess, diagnose, and incorporate strategies to improve the likelihood of seizure freedom in people with focal seizures.

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Test Your Expertise in Adult Seizure Conditions: An Online Medical Simulation CME / ABIM MOC / CE

Explore the individualized management of patients with epilepsy

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Expert Perspectives on Raising the Bar in Epilepsy: Treatment Selection, Dosing Considerations, and Interactions CME / CE

Do you know how to improve your patients’ odds of achieving seizure freedom?

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Tailoring Treatments for Your Patients With Focal Seizures: Understanding Differences Between Anti-Seizure Medications (ASMs) CME / CE

There are more than 30 antiseizure medications for focal epilepsy. How do you choose the right one for a patient?

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Highlights in Focal Seizures: A Review of What's New CME / ABIM MOC / CE

Join Drs Sperling and Krauss as they discuss new treatments for patients with focal seizures.

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