The Epilepsy Prescriber's Guide to Antiepileptic Drugs

This essential and concise clinical reference guide serves diverse clinicians and allied health professionals who prescribe antiepileptic drugs in contemporary clinical practice. Fully updated it features chapters on newly-approved drug brivaracetam updated paediatric prescribing use in particular populations including women the elderly and patients with cognitive impairment as well as sections on teratogenicity pregnancy and lactation. In full colour throughout the guide provides comprehensive antiepileptic drug (AED) prescribing information covering all thirty-five AEDs in alphabetical order. Each chapter features eight coloured sections including general therapeutics pharmacokinetics interaction profile adverse effects dosing and use special population considerations a summary overview and suggested reading. Perfect for quick reference use the guide is practical and essential for all AED drug prescribers including adult and paediatric neurologists neurosurgeons psychiatrists internists geriatricians paediatricians family physicians as well as allied health professionals and resident fellow and student trainees in all related medical fields.