ALLMedicine™ Status Epilepticus Center

Oct 16th, 2021 - Non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) often goes unnoticed and is not easily detected in patients with a decreased level of consciousness, especially in older patients. In this sense, lack of data in this population is available. The aim of the...

Oct 15th, 2021 - A 30-year-old man was admitted to Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) with status epilepticus secondary to severe hypoglycaemia on a background of type 1 diabetes. CT of the brain showed generalised cerebral oedema. He was successfully stepped down to a ...

Oct 14th, 2021 - Treatment of super-refractory status epilepticus (SRSE) is associated with various complications of anaesthetic coma therapy. This study aimed to describe the factors affecting the prognosis, especially in-hospital mortality, of patients receiving...

Oct 13th, 2021 - The piriform cortex known as area tempestas owns a high propensity to trigger limbic epileptic seizures. Recent studies on human patients indicate that a resection containing the piriform cortex produces a marked improvement in patients suffering ...

Oct 10th, 2021 - Benzodiazepines are the standard of care for the management of sustained seizure emergencies, including status epilepticus (SE) and seizure clusters. Seizure clusters are a variably defined seizure emergency wherein a patient has multiple seizures...

May 8th, 2021 - In children, seizures represent an extremely heterogeneous group of medical conditions ranging from benign cases, such as a simple febrile seizure, to life-threatening situations, such as status epilepticus. Underlying causes of seizures also repr...

Jan 30th, 2015 - Critical Care Continuous EEG (CCEEG) is a common procedure to monitor brain function in patients with altered mental status in intensive care units. There is significant variability in patient populations undergoing CCEEG and in technical specific...

Jan 7th, 2010 - The objective of the current article was to review the literature and discuss the degree of evidence for various treatment strategies for status epilepticus (SE) in adults. We searched MEDLINE and EMBASE for relevant literature from 1966 to Januar...

Apr 29th, 2009 - To reassess the evidence for management issues related to the care of women with epilepsy (WWE) during pregnancy, including the risk of pregnancy complications or other medical problems during pregnancy in WWE compared to other women, change in se...

Oct 6th, 2021 - The problem under investigation is the reduced functional mobility of patients with Dravet syndrome resulting from a crouch gait pattern. The solution, proposed in this research project, is the development of a decision framework based upon clinic...

May 18th, 2021 - Overall Goals: The overall goals of this research are to: (i) determine the feasibility of studying another approach to the detection of non-convulsive seizures in the paediatric intensive care unit, (ii) determine if paediatric intensive care nur...

Oct 22nd, 2020 - Status epilepticus (SE) is a life-threatening neurological emergency defined as a state of continuous seizure or multiple seizures without full recovery of sensory, motor and/or cognitive function for at least 30 minutes. To achieve high quality m...

Apr 15th, 2020 - The study was designed as an experimental, 2-arm, cross-over clinical trial, involving patients admitted to ICU of a university oncology hospital between September 2018 and July 2019. This study was conducted at one medical intensive care unit of ...

Oct 25th, 2019 - At the completion of neurology evaluation, if NCSE is in the differential diagnosis according to institution best practice, then consented participants will undergo placement of a large size, 20-channel EEG cap from Electro-Cap International with ...

Oct 11th, 2021 - Sustained, intensive therapy with two antiglutamatergic drugs is superior to standard aggressive treatment for postanoxic super-refractory status epilepticus (SRSE), new research suggests. In a retrospective cohort study of survivors of cardiac ar...

Sep 10th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Unlike in adults, seizures, including status epilepticus (SE), may be the first and main manifestation of COVID-19 in children, new research sugge...

Nov 17th, 2020 - Where you live matters in terms of Alzheimer's disease risk, according to a report from UsAgainstAlzheimer's and the Urban Institute. (Wall Street Journal) Changes of retinal thickness predicted cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease. (Annals of...

Sep 23rd, 2020 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Welcome to Medscape. I'm Dr Andrew Wilner. Today I have a special guest, Dr Daniel Friedman, professor of neurology at New York University medical school and the author of a paper ...

Sep 23rd, 2020 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Andrew N. Wilner, MD: Welcome to Medscape. I'm Dr Andrew Wilner. Today I have a special guest, Dr Daniel Friedman, professor of neurology at New York University medical school and the author of a paper ...