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Specifics about each Level and each Item:
What you do you need to know:
Level 2
• Identifies epilepsy
phenomenology, and classification of seizures and
epilepsies
Classification of Epileptic Seizures
Classification of Epilepsies
(Cleveland and ILAE classifications)
• Diagnoses convulsive
status epilepticus
Definition and electro-clincial features of convulsive
status epilepticus
Level 3
• Diagnoses and manages
common seizure disorders and provides antiepileptic drug
treatment
Work up and management of new onset seizure
Electro-clinical features and medical treatment of
common primary generalized epilepsies
- CAE
- JAE
- JME
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Electroclinical features and medical treatment of common
focal epilepsies
- Temporal
- Frontal
- Occipitoparietal
- Multifocal
Indications, dosage, and adverse effects of commonly
used AEDs (older and newer generations of AEDS)
• Diagnoses non-convulsive
status epilepticus
Definition and electroclincial features of different
types of non-convulsive status epilepticus
• Manages convulsive and
non-convulsive status epilepticus
Treatment algorithm of status epilepticus including AEDs
and dosages
Level 4
• Diagnoses uncommon
seizure disorders
Uncommon childhood epilepsies and epilepsy syndromes
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West syndrome
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Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
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Ohtahara syndrome
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Early myoclonic encephalopathy
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Landau Kleffner syndrome
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• Appropriately refers an
epilepsy patient for surgical evaluation or other
interventional therapies
Definition of medically intractable epilepsy
Basic
work up and indications for referral to an epilepsy
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