Children with Chronic Conditions
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Hospital Medicine
Neonatology
Neurology
Palliative Care
Well Newborn
Hannah Glass, MDCM, MAS (she/her/hers)
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
San Francisco, California, United States
Sonia Bonifacio, MD (she/her/hers)
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California, United States
This session will review lessons learned from recent work in the field of neonatal seizure diagnosis, management, and outcome. There are new approaches to differentiating the many types of neonatal epilepsies from acute symptomatic seizures related to hypoxia ischemia, intracranial hemorrhage, or infection. New data regarding digital EEG monitoring, bedside trending and seizure detection need to be incorporated for optimal clinical management of critically ill newborns. Clinical trials and prospective studies published in the last few years have provided new data regarding choice of antiseizure medications, speed of treatment, timing of medication discontinuation, neurologic outcome, and parental involvement. This session will focus on these new data, which will be discussed with regard to how they inform our current approach to neonatal seizure diagnosis and management. Participants will learn the newest strategies for rapid identification and treatment of neonatal seizures, and evidence-based approach to medication choice and duration of treatment, and comprehensive care of the newborn and their family in the NICU and after discharge home.
Speaker: Hannah C. Glass, MDCM, MAS – University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Speaker: Sonia L. Bonifacio, MD – Stanford University School of Medicine
Speaker: Janet S. Soul, MDCM – Dept of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Speaker: Monica E. Lemmon, MD – Duke University School of Medicine