Consensus guidelines on the management of Epilepsy 2024

The Epilepsy Council, Malaysian Society of Neurosciences was established in February 2002 to complement the activities organised by the Malaysian Epilepsy Society. In 2005, the Council published a set of guidelines for the management of epilepsy in the country and revised editions were published in 2010 and 2017. It had sufficient expertise to make strong recommendations to family physicians, internists, paediatricians, psychiatrists, neurologists, and all relevant healthcare providers pertaining to the management of epilepsy. Local specialists who have national, regional and/or international recognition in the field of epilepsy wrote the chapters in the guidelines. This is the fourth edition of the guidelines. Many of the chapters have been written and updated by the same authors as the third edition. The chapter on epilepsy classification is written with the knowledge that a new classification is still under construction. The recommendations in the guidelines are based on recent publications as well as the expert opinions of the panel. The Council would like to thank Dr Ahmad Rithauddin Mohamad and Ms Denise Tan Sin Shen for their assistance in formatting the references, as well as, Dr Alina Arulsamy for designing the cover for this Guidelines and for editing the entire document.