Fits and Faints

by John B.P. Stephenson

This book is concerned with one of the major areas of misdiagnosis in medicine today. It has been estimated that as many as thirty percent of children typed as "epileptic" when presenting with loss of consciousness, falls or other paroxysmal episodes have, in fact, non-epileptic attacks. Yet because of the stigma attached to this label, and the frequent side effects of anti-epileptic drugs, it is important that the alternative etiological mechanisms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521411963
• ISBN13: 9780521411967
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Mac Keith Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"