We used ketamine to avoid deepening the hypotension despite the seizures. For hypotension 500 mL colloid and 10 μg/kg/min dopamine infusion were started. The patient was consulted to internist because of levothyroxine. The doctor suggested to start to prednisolone and propranalol when TSH went ...
Clinicians had long been perplexed as to the cause of seizures associated with the use of TXA and EACA. Irene Lecker, a PhD candidate in Orser's laboratory, discovered that these drugs interfere with a naturally occurring anticonvulsant in the brain, glycine, and that widely used anesthetics re...
Depakote affects chemicals in the body that may be involved in causing seizures. Depakote is used to treat various types of seizure disorders. This medicine is sometimes used together with other seizure medications.Depakote tablets and capsules are used to treat seizures in people with epilepsy who...
After six months, researchers found that 26% of people who had both drug therapy and followed the modified Atkins diet had more than a 50% reduction in seizures compared to only 3% of the people who had drug therapy alone. Four people in the diet group were free of seizures by the end ...
Fycompa is used to treatpartial onset seizuresthat may or may not develop into general seizures in people withepilepsywho are at least 4 years old. Fycompa is also used with other medications to treat primary generalized tonic-clonic (PGTC) seizures in patients 12 years of age and older. ...
Emeside, ethosuximide, Zarontin - an anticonvulsant drug (trade names Emeside and Zarontin) used to treat petit mal epilepsy gabapentin, Neurontin - an anticonvulsant (trade name Neurontin) used to control some types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy; also used to manage neuralgia cause...
GHB was originally produced as an anesthetic in the 1960's because it had an ability to produce a reversible coma. It didn't last very long in that role because while patients would be put into a coma state, it would be accompanied by seizures and jerking movements of the limbs and ...
Most seizures in critically ill patients are nonconvulsive. A significant number of neurological and medical conditions can be complicated by nonconvulsive seizures (NCSs) and nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE), with brain infections, hemorrhages, global hypoxia, sepsis, and recent neurosurgery being...
Lamictal is an anti-epileptic medication used treat seizures in adults and children over 2 years old. Learn about side effects, interactions and indications.
Barbituratessuch as phenobarbital are similar to but much stronger than benzodiazepines and have been used to treat seizures in children. They're also prescribed to help with insomnia (see below). Risk for Addiction It is important to note that some anxiolytics, including barbiturates and benzodia...