Written by experts this guide is an invaluable clinical reference tool as well as an ideal training and educational package for Hospital Doctors, GPs and Specialist Nurses involved in the care and treatment of people with epilepsy.

Offering detailed information on the latest diagnostic techniques, drug and surgical treatments, this guide also addresses key psychosocial issues experienced by people with epilepsy. Using video clips from the internationally known video 'Epileptic Seizures', this package can also be used as a teaching tool for those in academic settings.

"I think that anyone who practises in the field of epilepsy would benefit from looking at this CD-ROM, it has lots of useful information and plenty of clear illustrations........."

Dr Mark Lawden, Consultant Neurologist

A first of its kind, 'Epilepsy; an interactive guide for medical professionals' is a comprehensive interactive multimedia guide covering both medical and psychosocial issues. The program features:

  • Comprehensive glossary and bibliography
  • Interactive Map
  • Pop-up tags on paging bar for ease of navigation
  • Simple, user friendly graphical interface
  • MRI, PET and SPECT scans as well as EEGs
  • Video clips of real seizures in non-clinical settings

An on-line Demonstration is available

Launch Demonstration
 

Review by 'CAL Reviews' at University of Cambridge, UK

Reviewed by:

Mike Manford
Attachment Director
Neurosciences Services Centre
Box 166
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Cambridge
UK

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Strengths
Video clips of epileptic seizures
Ease of use
EEGs and scans well presented
Weaknesses
Text is like a revision text rather than explanatory for a novice to the topic
Lack of cross links
Some scans of poor quality
How used in course
As an illustration of the different types of epileptic seizures and as a revision text.
Relevant course areas
Accident and Emergency; Medicine for the Elderly; Paediatrics; Psychiatry
Year of Course: 0 Phase: I,II,III 

This guide is provided as a CD. I ran it on a Dell 200MHz laptop with 32MB RAM.

Installation was easy and there were no glitches or hangups. There was a comprehensive section explaining how to use the guide - much better than most electronic books I have seen. The real thing about this guide is the video clips. Few people get the chance to see seizures and this guide shows many types . In addition patients and carers describe the impact of the seizures on their lives and how they cope with the problem. It is worth having this book just for these clips, and they bring to life the text and help navigate the potentially confusing classification of epilepsy. The text of the guide is didactic and brief - more like a revision text, but at an appropriate level for undergraduates. Issues covered are diagnosis, investigation, management. psychosocial issues and organisations of help in epilepsy. Topics are covered in bite-sized chunks, a few lines long, which summarise the issues succintly but do not provide any detailed explanation for the more curious reader