Emergency department drug therapy for status epilepticus in adults

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 96-100

  Lockey, A S ^a  

^a YORK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CLOMETHIAZOLE; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOSTEROID; DIAZEPAM; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; LIDOCAINE; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; NORDAZEPAM; PARALDEHYDE; PENTOBARBITAL; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PROPOFOL; THIOPENTAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG PENETRATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; EMERGENCY WARD; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0036203947     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.19.2.96     Document Type: Review

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