These key learning points summarize the consensus- and evidence-based recommendations included in this edition. The sources listed here for each statement recommend that physicians perform or implement these actions directly in a clinical setting.
1. Perform an electroencephalogram during wakefulness and sleep as part of the evaluation of a child with a first unprovoked seizure.
Strength of Evidence: SORT C
Source: American Academy of Neurology, reference 6
Website: https://n.neurology.org/content/55/5/616.long
2. Diagnose epilepsy in a child after at least two unprovoked seizures occur more than 24 hours apart, after one unprovoked seizure with a high likelihood of recurrence, or when criteria for an epilepsy syndrome are met.
Strength of Evidence: SORT C
Source: International League Against Epilepsy, reference 52
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/epi.12550
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