Sheila Carrera-Justiz, DVM, DACVIM (Neurology), presented a session on seizure management in general practice. The session covered how to distinguish seizures from other conditions, initial stabilization, what clinicians need in the first 15 minutes, underlying causes, and longer-term management.
What the session addressed
Carrera-Justiz reviewed ways to distinguish a seizure from other conditions that can be confused for one. The session outlined initial stabilization and diagnostics, emphasizing what clinicians need in the first 15 minutes. It discussed underlying causes of seizures and longer-term management.
The source is a session abstract. It does not provide the specific distinguishing criteria, stabilization steps, diagnostic protocols, or underlying causes that the session itself covered.
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Our read on a neurologist presenting this to GPs
A DACVIM neurologist presenting a seizure protocol for general practice signals that GPs are handling these cases in settings where specialist access may be limited. The session structure (differential diagnosis, then stabilization, then underlying causes, then longer-term management) reads as a practical protocol rather than a CE deep dive.
If your practice sees seizure cases regularly, we'd track down the full recording or slides. The abstract alone does not give you the protocol, but it names the topics covered and the neurologist who presented them.