Most seizures last less than 5 minutes. But sometimes they don’t stop there – or they come one after the other, giving the person suffering from them no chance to recover. “Status epilepticus” ...

A surprisingly high rate of nonconvulsive seizures and status epilepticus is found during continuous EEG monitoring in critically ill patients. A recent analysis of data regarding hospitalization and ...

Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) encompasses a wide range of diagnoses with variable outcomes and treatment recommendations. In children, NCSE can be observed in various conditions, including ...

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 ...

In adult patients with status epilepticus (SE)—a life-threatening state of ongoing or repetitive seizures—the current evidence regarding outcome prediction is based on clinical, biochemical and EEG ...

Intravenous valproate, levetiracetam, and fosphenytoin stopped status epilepticus that was resistant to initial treatment with lorazepam in approximately half the patients and did not differ ...

The choice of drugs for patients with status epilepticus that is refractory to treatment with benzodiazepines has not been thoroughly studied. In a randomized, blinded, adaptive trial, we compared the ...