Lorazepam does not have better efficacy and safety than diazepam for pediatric status epilepticus, according to results of a head-to-head comparison. On the basis of the findings, "hospitals should ...

Status epilepticus in children is defined as a prolonged seizure or series of seizures without recovery of consciousness, typically lasting longer than five minutes. It represents a neurological ...

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 ...

July 22, 2008 — Convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) in children warrants early, aggressive treatment that includes rapid transport to the emergency department as well as very early prehospital ...

Convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) is the situation when a tonic-clonic seizure doesn't stop either on its own or with anticonvulsants. It is the most common life-threatening neurological emergency ...

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Researchers from Texas A&M University System have detailed the development and characterization of a novel pediatric rat model of organophosphate (OP)-induced status epilepticus (SE).

For children with CSE, the greatest burden is nonepileptic neurological morbidity... The population-based study by Yoong and colleagues, 4 performed as part of the Status Epilepticus Imaging and ...

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 ...

It is uncertain whether the administration of benzodiazepines by paramedics is an effective and safe treatment for out-of-hospital status epilepticus. Of the 205 patients enrolled, 66 received ...