The patient was experiencing a sustained pattern of hyperthermia caused by infection, zonisamide, and persistent convulsions, which caused a vicious cycle of further seizures. In this case, the control of infec
The patient was awake immediately after the surgery was completed. The laryngeal mask airway was removed when spontaneous breath and muscle strength were regained. At this time, her HR was 140 beats/min, BP was 130/70 mmHg, and SpO2 was 98%. The patient had no apparent pain or chills ...
While multifaceted treatments may prove more effective, monotherapies, particularly those using anticoagulants alone, without the inclusion of steroids or antivirals, often lead to poorer patient outcomes.Through precise mortality predictions, this machine learning model unveils insights into treatment ...
However, more attention should be given to the acyclovir dose to avoid either subtherapeutic drug concentration or overdose toxicity, which may worsen the patient’s clinical outcomes. It has been recommended to use the ideal body weight (IBW) or adjusted body weight to calculate the acyclovir ...
Ictal psychosis typically involves non-convulsive status epilepticus, mostly of focal origin. Because automatisms and other typical seizure phenomena can raise the suspicion of ictal psychosis, the final diagnosis of ictal psychosis is based on the EEG [33]. Our patient’s psychotic episode was not...
Neuroimaging (cranial MRI or CT) and CSF studies were not performed for all patients. The decision to perform these investigations was based on clinical judgment. In cases where the patient’s condition did not allow for these procedures, if they were contraindicated, or in the case of patient...
Yet, we did not observed any patient experiencing severe headaches leading to suspect intracranial hypertension. With rare exceptions (dysesthesias linked to meralgia paresthetica, C2 radicular neuralgia, isolated aphasia, upper limb transitory deficit), none of the disorders observed in our patients ...
Patients experiencing their first seizure were classified into three categories: a single epileptic seizure, a cluster of seizures within 24 h, and a first episode of status epilepticus [21], with the latter two requiring ASM for management. Subsequently, these patients were subdivided into two sub...
A medically induced coma may be an option for patients who are at high risk of serious brain injury, either from physical trauma, a drug overdose, or a disease such as meningitis, rabies or status epilepticus.
The detected events may be used in a form of treatment for a patient experiencing seizures or “ictal” or “epileptiform” activity, such as a form of treatment involving delivering a therapy of electrical stimulation whenever an event is deemed to have been detected by the implantable neuro...