Epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of nonconvulsive status epilepticus: Opening Pandora's box

Neurology: Clinical Practice

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 275-286

  Sutter, Raoul ^a,b,c   Rüegg, Stephan ^c   Kaplan, Peter W ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DIAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; PENTOBARBITAL; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PROPOFOL; THIOPENTAL; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LIVER TOXICITY; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; NONCONVULSIVE STATUS EPILEPTICU; NONCONVULSIVE STATUS EPILEPTICUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPOFOL INFUSION SYNDROME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84875860329     PISSN: 21630402     EISSN: 21630933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/CPJ.0b013e318278be75     Document Type: Review

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