Main description:

Status Epilepticus (SE) is a single epileptic seizure lasting more than five minutes or two or more seizures within a five-minute period without the person returning to normal between them. SE is a life-threatening medical emergency particularly if treatment is delayed.

This book is a concise guide to Status Epilepticus for practitioners and trainees.

Beginning with an overview of the condition and the evolution of its definition over the years, the following chapters discuss prehospital management and investigations and monitoring. The remaining sections cover management therapies.

A flow chart and protocols are included to assist management in intensive care units and questions and answers are provided at the end of each chapter to enhance learning.

Key points

Concise guide to diagnosis and management of Status Epilepticus
Covers different management therapies
Includes flow chart and protocols to assist management in intensive care units
Questions and answers at the end of each chapter enhance learning

Contents:

Evolution of 'Definitions' of Status Epilepticus and Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
Prehospital Management of Status Epilepticus
Investigations and Monitoring Protocol in Status Epilepticus
First-line Therapy in Status Epilepticus
Second-line Therapy in Status Epilepticus
Anesthetic Agents in Status Epilepticus
Refractory and Super-refractory Status Epilepticus
Critical Appraisal of Alternative Therapies in Refractory and Super-refractory Status Epilepticus;
Status Epilepticus in Special
When to Suspect, How to Identify and Treat Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
Management Protocol in Status Epilepticus -1
Management Protocol in Status Epilepticus -2

Index