Fig. 4

Results of the online survey on antiseizure treatment strategies. In an anonymous online survey, 122 participating physicians working in neurology, neurosurgery, and/or intensive care were given three fictitious cases of a first acute symptomatic seizure (purple) due to eclampsia/posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES), ischemic stroke, and herpes simplex virus (HSV) type-1 encephalitis, plus one fictitious case of a first unprovoked seizure (yellow) following traumatic brain injury. A Recommendations for durations of treatment with antiseizure medication. B Demand for acute (above) and/or follow-up EEG (below) to guide decisions on treatment duration. ^# In case of HSV encephalitis, the ‘1 week’ option was replaced by ‘as long as anti-infective treatment is given’. * Uncorrected Wilcoxon test, p < 0.05 in pairwise comparisons to all other cases