J Child Neurol. 2005;20(6):476-481. Pentobarbital has emerged as one of the standard choices for refractory generalized convulsive status epilepticus. In this study, in 11% of the cases (13 patients), ...

A surprisingly high rate of nonconvulsive seizures and status epilepticus is found during continuous EEG monitoring in critically ill patients. A recent analysis of data regarding hospitalization and ...

Status epilepticus (SE) is an extremely serious and often fatal medical emergency. It may be defined as a continuous seizure which lasts for 30 minutes or more, or as 2 or more seizure episodes ...

Bacterial meningitis complicated by seizures and confusion The seizures began following surgery to repair a cerebrospinal fluid leak. Ms. M, aged 73 years, was brought to the neuroscience clinic by ...

This is an epilepsy that is idiopathic and typically begins in children between 3 and 13 years of age. Most commonly it starts before onset of puberty. There are simple partial seizures that involve ...

The efficacy of a combination of midazolam and phenytoin in treating generalized convulsive status epilepticus in children was studied retrospectively. The patient group comprised all patients ...