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- status epilepticus, or of types that do not involve contractions, such as absence seizures or complex partial seizures. Convulsive status epilepticus is a...
- as status epilepticus, a medical emergency requiring rapid intervention. In emergency care, the first-line therapy for status epilepticus is the administration...
- convulsive status epilepticus. Lorazepam is more effective than diazepam and intravenous phenytoin in the treatment of status epilepticus and has a lower...
- Clonazepam is effective in the acute control of non-convulsive status epilepticus; the benefits, though, tended to be transient in many people, and the...
- procedures requiring anesthesia, in the management of refractory status epilepticus, and for induction or maintenance of anesthesia prior to and during surgeries...
- Complex partial status epilepticus (CPSE) is one of the non-convulsive forms of status epilepticus, a rare form of epilepsy defined by its recurrent nature...
- catatonia by the absence of any other signs/symptoms. Nonconvulsive status epilepticus is seizure activity with no accompanying tonic-clonic movements. It can...
- recommended. The IV or IM (injectable forms) may be used to treat status epilepticus if other drugs fail to achieve satisfactory results. Phenobarbital is...
- lidocaine for treatment of status epilepticus. In: Delgado-Escueta AV, Wasterlain CG, Treiman DM, Porter RJ, eds. Status Epilepticus. Mechanisms of Brain Damage...
- given in the ch**** or in the nose for acute seizures, including status epilepticus. Drawbacks include a high degree of breakthrough seizures—due to the...