Emergency Treatment of Status Epilepticus: Current Thinking

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-113

  Millikan, Dan ^a   Rice, Brian ^a   Silbergleit, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticonvulsants; Benzodiazepines; Emergency treatment; Seizure; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DIAZEPAM; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM;

APOPTOSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMATOSE PATIENT; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EPILEPTIC STATE; EXCITOTOXICITY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 59749085987     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2008.12.001     Document Type: Review

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