Seizures in the newborn

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-155

  Sankar, M Jeeva ^a   Agarwal, Ramesh ^a   Aggarwal, Rajiv ^b   Deorari, Ashok K ^a   Paul, Vinod K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Narayana Hridalaya   (India)

Author keywords

Anti epileptic therapy; Newborn; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; DIAZEPAM; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; GLUCONATE CALCIUM; GLUCOSE; LIDOCAINE; LORAZEPAM; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MIDAZOLAM; PARALDEHYDE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PYRIDOXINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ASPHYXIA; BENIGN NEONATAL SLEEP MYOCLONUS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL INFECTION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEEDING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; IMAGING; INFECTION; LIVER INJURY; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MENINGITIS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NERVOUSNESS; NEWBORN; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; TONIC SEIZURE; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VITAL SIGN; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY;

ANTICONVULSANTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EPILEPSY, BENIGN NEONATAL; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; HUMANS; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENINGITIS; SEIZURES;

EID: 44649169699     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-008-0023-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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