This study's goal was to examine how antiepileptic drugs are prescribed to individuals with epilepsy in a tertiary care facility. The general medicine department of the Navodaya Medical College Hospital and Research Centre in Raichur served as the site of an observational study. 50 in-patients with epilepsy who were admitted to the general medicine ward were studied for their demographic information, clinical diagnosis, epilepsy type and prescribing pattern of antiepileptic drugs. 50 prescriptions in all were examined, with more men (62%) than women (38%) involved. Patients between the ages of 20 and 40 (52%) were more likely to have epilepsy and 79% of them had GTCS, which was followed by partial seizures and other forms. Most of them (67%) received monotherapy and phenobarbitone (28%), phenytoin (16%), levetiracetam (12%), carbamazepine (8%), lorazepam (2%) and ethosuximide (1%), are the most often given AEDs. Phenobarbitone and phenytoin were the most frequently used two drug combinations and phenobarbitone, phenytoin and carbamazepine were the most frequently used three drug combinations, which were given to 33% of the patients. In our analysis, the majority of patients were males between the ages of 20 and 40 and the most often prescribed medications were traditional AEDs taken in monotherapy with phenobarbitone, phenytoin and levetiracetam.
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