Seizures

Clinical criteria:

• The condition must be stable for the prescriber to consider the listed maximum quantity of this medicine suitable for this patient,

AND

• Patient must have focal onset seizures; OR

• Patient must have primary generalised tonic-clonic seizures; OR

• Patient must have seizures of the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome,

AND

• The condition must have failed to be controlled satisfactorily by at least one other antiseizure medication,

AND

• Patient must be unable to take a solid dose form of topiramate.

Treatment criteria:

• Must be treated by a health practitioner who is any of: (i) a medical practitioner, (ii) an authorised PBS prescriber who is not a medical practitioner, but who is: (a) sharing care of the patient with at least one medical practitioner; (b) intending to share care of the patient with a medical practitioner.