(HealthDay)—For critically ill patients with convulsive status epilepticus, hypothermia added to standard care is not associated with a significant improvement in good functional outcome at 90 days, ...

Status epilepticus is a neurological emergency defined by continuous or rapidly recurring seizures lasting longer than five minutes without recovery of consciousness. Prompt recognition and treatment ...

Status epilepticus (SE) is a neurologic emergency that require immediate vigorous treatment in order to prevent serious morbidity or even death. Several investigators have suggested that the ...

Delayed treatment of status epilepticus is known to increase seizure duration, but new research shows that a delay of more than 10 minutes from seizure onset increases morbidity and risk of death. The ...

Status epilepticus -- continuous or rapid sequential seizure activity for 30 minutes or more -- is a medical emergency with a high mortality rate in both children and adults. Prompt and effective ...

Provide resuscitation and immediate emergency treatment for children, young people and adults who have convulsive status epilepticus (seizures lasting 5 minutes or more). If the person with convulsive ...

A rare condition that presents with refractory and many times super-refractory status epilepticus, NORSE, including its subtype febrile infection related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES), is heterogeneous ...

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 ...

Nat Clin Pract Neurol. 2007;3(9):505-516. When PLEDs are bilateral and asynchronous, they are called bilateral PLEDs (Figure 3C). Bilateral PLEDs seem to be more often associated with coma and poor ...

Status epilepticus - continuous or rapid sequential seizure activity for 30 minutes or more - is a medical emergency with a high mortality rate in both children and adults. Prompt and effective ...