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Symptoms may include shaking, loss of consciousness, and loss of bladder control. [2] They may or may not be caused by either physiological or psychological conditions. [2] Physiological causes include fainting, sleep disorders, and heart arrhythmias. [2] [3] Psychological causes are known as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. [3]
Status epilepticus (SE), or status seizure, is a medical condition with abnormally prolonged seizures, and which can have long-term consequences [3], manifesting as a single seizure lasting more than a defined time (time point 1), or 2 or more seizures over the same period without the person returning to normal between them.
Based on symptoms, blood tests, medical imaging, electroencephalography [7] Differential diagnosis: Syncope, psychogenic non-epileptic seizure, migraine aura, transient ischemic attack [3] [8] Treatment: Less than 5 min: Place person on their side, remove nearby dangerous objects More than 5 min: Treat as per status epilepticus [3] [5] [9 ...
Early electroencephalography is recommended if there is a possibility of non-convulsive or subtle status epilepticus. They are examined for disorders such as sarcoidosis , porphyria , and other unusual systemic disorders.
Status epilepticus is a seizure "lasting longer than 30 minutes or a series of seizures without return to the baseline level of alertness between seizures." [ 12 ] Epilepsia partialis continua is a rare type of focal motor seizure, commonly involving the hands or face , which recurs with intervals of seconds or minutes, lasting for extended ...
Convulsive status epilepticus that does not respond to initial treatment typically requires admission to the intensive care unit and treatment with stronger agents such as midazolam infusion, ketamine, thiopentone or propofol. [106] Most institutions have a preferred pathway or protocol to be used in a seizure emergency like status epilepticus ...
In particular, the GABA agonists vigabatrin and tiagabine are used to induce, not to treat, absence seizures and absence status epilepticus. [30] Similarly, oxcarbazepine, phenytoin, phenobarbital, gabapentin, and pregabalin should not be used in the treatment of absence seizures because these medications may worsen absence seizures. [26]
A person having a convulsion may experience several different symptoms, [1] such as a brief blackout, confusion, drooling, loss of bowel or bladder control, sudden shaking of the entire body, uncontrollable muscle spasms, or temporary cessation of breathing. [1] Symptoms usually last from a few seconds to several minutes, although they can last ...