**3.1 Guideline**

There has been a number of regional and international consensus and guidelines related to comprehensive management of epilepsy surgery. In Hong Kong, the first guideline, *The Hong Kong Epilepsy Guideline 2009*, was published by the Hong Kong Epilepsy Society with the aim as a general guideline for the medical practitioner [24]. The Guideline included the following aspects:


The guidelines had the updated version in 2017–2018 and the whole guideline was divided into four sections addressing the following aspects including use of

antiepileptic drugs, guideline on status epilepticus, drug resistant epilepsy, and woman and epilepsy [25].
