canadiEM - By Michael Verdirame - August 31, 2021
Take Home
While the Pizza SLICES approach is not an exhaustive list, hopefully it will assist you in recalling the essential work-up and management priorities in resolved, first-time seizures. Additional items not covered in the above mnemonic are “can’t miss” seizure mimics such as stroke and TIA. It is intended to be applied once insidious causes have already been considered.
Next time you are about to discharge someone home after their first seizure, stop and ask yourself – have you served them all of their Pizza SLICES… SSS SSS?