Status Epilepticus
Practical Guidelines in Management
Gebonden Engels 2017 9789386322999Samenvatting
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 EpilepticusCovers different management therapiesIncludes flow chart and protocols to assist management in intensive care unitsQuestions and answers at the end of each chapter enhance learning
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
- 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
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