Epilepsy Emergencies: Diagnosis and Management

摘要: Seizures and status epilepticus are epilepsy emergencies with high morbidity mortality. Early treatment is crucial, the identification of an underlying etiology informs both continued prognosis. Many patients have underdiagnosed nonconvulsive seizures or epilepticus, particularly comatose critically ill. Timely EEG can be useful for diagnosis, management, optimizing response, determining prognosis in these patients. Refractory conditions quite complicated limited evidence-based guidance, but should not restricted by nihilism even most prolonged cases, especially if there widespread irreversible brain injury.