Now we lay them down to sleep: Ethical issues with the use of pharmacologic coma for adult status epilepticus

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 752-755

  Bramstedt, Katrina A ^a   Morris, Harold H ^a   Tanner, Adriana ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Barbiturates; Coma; Ethics; Seizures; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; FUROSEMIDE; OPIATE; PENTOBARBITAL; PROPOFOL; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; CONVULSIVE THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MICROCLIMATE; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEIZURE; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMA; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DRUG THERAPY; ETHICS; FATALITY; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; COMA; DRUG THERAPY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; PENTOBARBITAL; PROPOFOL; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 13844265589     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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