Description
The Ease and Difficulty of Canine Epilepsy by Elsa Beltran. Seizures are frequently encountered in first opinion practice. Seizure activity is a clinical sign of brain dysfunction and not a single disease. The first important step is to recognize an epileptic seizure. There are many episodes that can look like seizures, however, they are not and therefore the diagnostic approach, treatment and outcome might differ from those dogs presented with seizures. During this lecture we will discuss the importance of the classification, a rational clinical reasoning approach, diagnostic work up and the medical management. The number of medications available veterinary medicine has increased significantly over the past years. However, veterinary surgeons still face the same questions: When do we start an anti-epileptic medication?, Which anti-epileptic medication do I prescribe? When do I add another medication? Who do I monitor the response? To answer these and other questions some consensus statements have been published in veterinary medicine. This webinar will summarize those and apply them to the daily clinical practice.