OVERVIEW
Epilepsy is a group of disorders characterised by the tendency to have recurrent seizures. The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) serves as the premier international resource for current and emerging standards and best practice in epilepsy care. Over the last 112 years the ILAE has strived to provide definitions for key concepts and classification schemes for epilepsy. They aim is to provide clear terminology which will enable improvements and advancement in epilepsy care, resource allocation and research. In 2017, the ILAE published position statements with revised terminology and concepts based on available evidence. In this clinical webinar Professor Lynette Sadleir outlines the new ILAE seizure and epilepsy classifications. She will also demonstrate how these are implemented in practice using case examples.
Dr Lynette Sadleir is a professor at the University of Otago in Wellington New Zealand. In her clinical role as a paediatric epileptologist, she diagnoses and manages children with epilepsy. She is a physician scientist with expertise in epilepsy and epilepsy genetics and is the director of the Epilepsy Research Group at the University of Otago. She is presently serving as the chair of the International League Against Epilepsy SNOMED taskforce.
Recording (YouTube)