It's time to revise the definition of status epilepticus

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 120-122

  Lowenstein, Daniel H ^a,d   Bleck, Thomas ^b   Macdonald, Robert L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPILEPTIC STATE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; HUMANS; INFANT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; TERMINOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032921086     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb02000.x     Document Type: Article

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