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An effective epilepsy treatment plan for dogs should reduce seizure frequency, minimize adverse drug effects, and maximize quality of life.
The canine epilepsy patient requires a methodical, clinical reasoning approach (Figure1) to guide the clinician to the most likely underlying disease process and, therefore, to develop an appropriate and adequate treatment plan to reduce the brain’s vulnerability to seizure events.
Determination of an appropriate treatment regimen for canine epilepsy depends on an accurate diagnosis of the type and cause of seizures, only after which appropriate therapeutic options can be identified. Diagnosing and Classifying Canine Seizures
Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Canine Epilepsy Seizure identification and diagnosis (not included in this paper) Decision making treatment strategies 1. When should treatment be started? 2. Which drug should be used first? 3. How should AED monitoring be performed? 4. What are the risks of treatment? 5. What is drug-resistance? 6.
TREATMENT HEALTH ARE •Outpatient—isolated seizures in an otherwise healthy dog •Inpatient—cluster seizures (more than one seizure in 24 hours) and status epilepticus (repeated or prolonged seizure activity) • onstant medical supervision; ensure breathing, perhaps saliva suctioning required, oxygen
(Download as a PDF) Epileptic seizures are defined as transient signs due abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain, and epilepsy refers to at least two unprovoked seizures more than 24 hours apart. The term idiopathic means a disease of unknown cause.
We normally recommend epilepsy is treated when: More than two seizures occur in a six month period. If there is more than one seizure in a 24 hour period (cluster seizures) If there is continuous seizure activity for more than 5 minutes, or recurrent seizures between which your pet does not fully recover (status epilepticus)
