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Management of Status Epilepticus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Michael J. Aminoff
Michael J. Aminoff*
Affiliation:
School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California
*
Box 0114, Room M-794, University of California, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. 94143
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Abstract

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The pharmacologic management of major motor status epilepticus is summarized. When general anesthesia is required, the electroencephalogram (EEG) is used for monitoring the adequacy of treatment. The EEG findings may also be important in recognizing status epilepticus and monitoring its response to treatment when this is clinically difficult, as when it occurs in comatose or pharmacologically paralyzed patients or in the context of severe brain damage. Finally, the EEG helps to clarify the nature of motor activities of uncertain basis in patients in the intensive care unit and has indicated that non-convulsive seizures or status are more common than clinically suspected in such patients.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue S1 , February 1998 , pp. S4 - S6
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1998

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