Description
Seizures are a common challenge in veterinary practice. We often rely on the owner's description of the event to help us confirm it as a seizure but there other forms of acute collapse or involuntary movement that could mimic seizures. We will discuss how to differentiate seizures from syncope, narcolepsy, movement disorders and neuromuscular collapse and subsequently how to investigate a dog suspected of having seizures to confirm the cause and determine its management.
We will learn:
What questions we can ask to determined seizure vs. other events.
What movement disorders can look like
What sleep disorders can look like
What diagnostic testing should we consider for seizures
What idiopathic epilepsy is
SAVC Accreditation number: AC/2228/24