Q4: Can convulsive epilepsy be diagnosed at first level care by a non-specialist health care provider in low and middle income country settings?
Эта брошюра была разработана для того, чтобы предоставить широкой общественности общую информацию об эпилепсии. Она не содержит конкретных медицинских рекоменд...ций, и люди с эпилепсией недолжны на основе данной информации вносить изменения в ранее назначенное лечение или осуществлять другие действия без предварительной консультации с лечащим врачом.
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This series of supportive tools are based on the WHO Therapeutics and COVID-19: living guideline. They are intended to provide supportive information for healthcare workers who are prescribing, administering and monitoring patients receiving nirmatrelvir-ritonavir for non-severe COVID-19.
Q5: What is the added advantage of doing an electroencephalography (EEG) in people with convulsive epilepsy in non- specialist settings in low and middle income countries?
Standard Treatment Guideline
Q 10: In adults and children with epilepsy, which psychological interventions used as adjunctive therapies with antiepileptic drugs when compared to placebo/comparator produce benefits/harm in specified outcomes?
Q9. In adults and children with convulsive epilepsy in remission, when should treatment be discontinued?
Scoping Question: For adults and children living with HIV, which antiepileptic medications (such as phenobarbital, phenytoin, carbamazepine or valproic acid) produce benefits and/or harms when compared to a placebo or controls?
Standard Treatment Guideline
Government of Nepal has an obligation to ensure availability of affordable and high quality basic health care services to its population
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Q12: Should the treatment be similar in individuals with intellectual disability and epilepsy compared to people with epilepsy only?
The Global Campaign Against Epilepsy “Out of the Shadows”
BMC Res Notes (2016) 9:182 DOI 10.1186/s13104-016-1993-7
Received: 16/11/2013 - Accepted: 23/03/2014 - Published: 27/07/2014
The manual is written for clinicians working at the district hospital (first-level referral care) who diagnose and manage sick adolescents and adults in resource constrained settings. It aims to support clinical reasoning, and to provide an effective clinical approach and protocols for the managemen...t of common and serious or potentially life-threatening conditions at district hospitals. The target audience thus includes doctors, clinical officers, health officers, and senior nurse practitioners. It has been designed to be applicable in both high and low HIV prevalence settings.
Volume 2 provides a symptom-based approach to clinical care for acute and subacute conditions (including mental health). It provides short summaries of the management of diseases that affect multiple systems of the body, focusing on communicable diseases. It also includes the chronic or long-term management of HIV, TB, alcohol, and substance use disorders.
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