Medical risks in epilepsy
Edited by Svein I Johannessen, Torbjörn Tomson, Matti Sillanpää, and Birthe Pedersen (Pp 140, £29). Published by Wrightson Biomedical Publishing Ltd, Hampshire, 2002. ISBN 1- 871816-46-7
This is a very useful, reasonably comprehensive yet succinct multiauthor small book on medical risks associated with epilepsy. Areas covered include methodological aspects; accidents and risks in everyday life; traffic accidents; driving regulations; mortality, including SUDEP; psychiatric comorbidity and suicide; fatal adverse drug reactions reporting data (which are rather difficult …
