ALLMedicine™ Neonatal Seizures Center

Nov 17th, 2020 - In the absence of controlled trials, treatment of neonatal seizures has changed minimally despite poor drug efficacy. We tested bumetanide added to phenobarbital to treat neonatal seizures in the first trial to include a standard-therapy control g...

Nov 14th, 2020 - Infantile spasms (IS) is a severe epilepsy in early childhood. Early treatment of IS provides the best chance of seizure remission and favorable developmental outcome. We aimed to develop a prediction rule to accurately predict which neonates with...

Nov 11th, 2020 - Neonatal seizures represent the most frequent presenting sign of any neurological abnormality secondary to various etiologies in the neonatal period. Phenobarbitone (PB) has been used as first-line anti-epileptic drug in the treatment of seizures ...

Nov 11th, 2020 - Neonatal seizures are frequent but underdiagnosed manifestations of acute brain dysfunction and an important contributor to unfavorable outcomes. Etiology and severity of brain injury are the single strongest outcome determinants. The authors will...

Nov 6th, 2020 - The terminology and classification of seizures and epilepsy has undergone multiple revisions in the last several decades, which can lead to confusion and miscommunication amongst physicians and researchers. In 2017, the International League Agains...

Dec 16th, 2009 - Continuous electronic fetal monitoring was developed in the 1960s to assist in the diagnosis of fetal hypoxia during labor. Continuous electronic fetal monitoring has been shown to reduce the incidence of neonatal seizures, but there has been no b...

Nov 17th, 2020 - In the absence of controlled trials, treatment of neonatal seizures has changed minimally despite poor drug efficacy. We tested bumetanide added to phenobarbital to treat neonatal seizures in the first trial to include a standard-therapy control g...

Nov 14th, 2020 - Infantile spasms (IS) is a severe epilepsy in early childhood. Early treatment of IS provides the best chance of seizure remission and favorable developmental outcome. We aimed to develop a prediction rule to accurately predict which neonates with...

Nov 11th, 2020 - Neonatal seizures represent the most frequent presenting sign of any neurological abnormality secondary to various etiologies in the neonatal period. Phenobarbitone (PB) has been used as first-line anti-epileptic drug in the treatment of seizures ...

Nov 11th, 2020 - Neonatal seizures are frequent but underdiagnosed manifestations of acute brain dysfunction and an important contributor to unfavorable outcomes. Etiology and severity of brain injury are the single strongest outcome determinants. The authors will...

Nov 6th, 2020 - The terminology and classification of seizures and epilepsy has undergone multiple revisions in the last several decades, which can lead to confusion and miscommunication amongst physicians and researchers. In 2017, the International League Agains...

Oct 27th, 2020 - Maintaining antiseizure medication in infants who have had acute symptomatic neonatal seizures has been standard practice, but a prospective, observational, comparative effectiveness study calls that practice into question, providing evidence that...

Feb 25th, 2020 - Authors: Shavonne L. Massey, MD and Hannah C.

Dec 7th, 2017 - WASHINGTON – As a potential add-on therapy to phenobarbital, bumetanide demonstrated acceptable safety and promising antiseizure activity in a phase 1/2 safety study presented at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society. “This is an ear.

Jul 28th, 2016 - Planned home births in the United States have greater risk of perinatal death and complications, but a reduced risk of maternal interventions, said the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in an updated committee opinion. There is m...

Jul 25th, 2016 - Women who are interested in a planned home birth are entitled to make medically informed decisions about where to deliver their babies, according to an updated policy statement from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. But wome.