Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
The recommendations in the following guidelines may vary from those that appear in UpToDate topic reviews. Readers who are looking for UpToDate topic reviews should use the UpToDate search box to find the relevant content.
Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Seizures and epilepsy in children".)
International
●International Expert Consensus Panel: Management of epilepsy with eyelid myoclonia (2023)
●ILAE: Expert consensus recommendations on the timing of referral to evaluate for epilepsy surgery (2022)
●ILAE: Position statement on the definition of the idiopathic generalized epilepsy syndromes (2022)
●American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and ILAE: Evidence-based guideline on antiepileptic drug selection for people with HIV/AIDS (2012, reaffirmed 2021)
●ILAE: Report on the management of epilepsy in pregnancy (2019)
●IFCN: Clinical utility of EEG in diagnosing and monitoring epilepsy in adults (2018)
●ILAE: Position paper on the classification of the epilepsies (2017)
Canada
United States
●American Academy of Neurology (AAN): Practice guideline summary on use of fMRI in the presurgical evaluation of patients with epilepsy (2017, reaffirmed 2023)
●AAN and American Epilepsy Society (AES): Practice guideline summary on sudden unexpected death in epilepsy incidence rates and risk factors (2017, reaffirmed 2023)
●AAN: Evidence-based guideline on vagus nerve stimulation for the treatment of epilepsy, update (2013, reaffirmed 2022)
●AAN: Reassessment on neuroimaging in the emergency patient presenting with seizure (an evidence-based review) (2007, reaffirmed 2022)
●AAN: Use of serum prolactin in diagnosing epileptic seizures (2005, reaffirmed 2022)
●AAN and AES: Practice advisory on the use of felbamate in the treatment of patients with intractable epilepsy (1999, reaffirmed 2022)
●AAN and AES: Practice parameter for management issues for women with epilepsy – Focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): Obstetrical complications and change in seizure frequency, update (2009, reaffirmed 2022)
●AAN and AES: Practice parameter for management issues for women with epilepsy – Focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review): Teratogenesis and perinatal outcomes, update (2009, reaffirmed 2022)
●AAN and AES: Practice parameter for management issues for women with epilepsy – Focus on pregnancy (an evidence-based review):Vitamin K, folic acid, blood levels, and breastfeeding, update (2009, reaffirmed 2022)
●AAN, AES, and American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS): Practice parameter on temporal lobe and localized neocortical resections for epilepsy (2003, reaffirmed 2022)
●AAN: Practice advisory on antiseizure medication withdrawal in seizure-free patients, update (2021)
●AAN and AES: Evidence-based guideline for management of an unprovoked first seizure in adults (2015, reaffirmed 2021)
●AAN and AES: Practice guideline summary on efficacy and tolerability of the new antiepileptic drugs I – Treatment of new-onset epilepsy, update (2018, reaffirmed 2021)
●AAN and AES: Practice guideline summary on efficacy and tolerability of the new antiepileptic drugs II – Treatment-resistant epilepsy, update (2018, reaffirmed 2021)
●AAN and International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE): Evidence-based guideline on antiepileptic drug selection for people with HIV/AIDS (2012, reaffirmed 2021)
●American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS): Standardized critical care EEG terminology (2021)
●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on seizures and epilepsy (revised 2019)
●AES: Evidence-based guideline for treatment of convulsive status epilepticus in children and adults (2016)
●Neurocritical Care Society (NCS): Guidelines for the evaluation and management of status epilepticus (2012)
Europe
●EFNS: Guideline on the management of status epilepticus in adults (2010)
●EFNS: Pre-surgical evaluation for epilepsy surgery – European standards (2000)
United Kingdom
●NICE: Guideline on epilepsies in children, young people, and adults (2022)
●NICE: Clinical guideline on epilepsies – Diagnosis and management (2012, updated 2021)
●Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): A national clinical guideline for the diagnosis and management of epilepsy in adults (2015, revised 2018)
Australia–New Zealand
Japan
●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Neurology (JSN): Epilepsy practice guidelines (2018)
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