A specific type of seizure regarded as a conversion symptom, which occurs when a person cannot directly express distress; patients are not consciously aware of the conversion symptoms, nor do they intentionally produce them. The seizures may be accompanied by somatic symptoms, which serve several pu...
Depakene, Klonopin, and Zarontin are prescribed for patients who have absence seizures. Neurontin (gabapentin), Lamictal (lamotrigine), and topiramate (Topamax) are among the medications more recently approved in the United States to treat adults who have partial seizures or partial and grand mal ...
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9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook recurrent seizure Neurology A repeated unprovoked seizure McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Methods: Retrospective study where data from patients treated for seizures by the EMS of the city of Zurich were analyzed. Effectiveness of the MTAS-EMS and i.v. diazepam in children and adults was compared with respect of cessation of seizure without recurrence over the period until arrival ...
due to hypoxia, trauma, tumors or discrete brain lesions Clinical Clouding of consciousness, event amnesia, bursts of anger or emotion, anxiety, automatisms EEG Temporal lobe spikes during sleep, abnormal electrical activity in the nerve cells of a discrete region of the brain. SeeSeizures. ...
Treatment of Seizures in Children and Adults in the Emergency Medical System of the City of Zurich, Switzerland - Midazolam vs Diazepam - A Retrospective A... Introduction:Seizures count to critical situations emergency medical systems (EMS) are confronted with. Objectives:Evaluation of a modified ...
parasomnias that are unusual or atypical because of the individual’s age at onset, the time, duration or frequency of occurrence of the behavior including, but not limited to: nocturnal seizures, psychogenic dissociative states, REM sleep behavior disorder, sleep talking and/or confusional arousal...
Seizures A seizure is abnormal electrical activity of theneuronsNeuronsThe basic cellular units of nervous tissue. Each neuron consists of a body, an axon, and dendrites. Their purpose is to receive, conduct, and transmit impulses in the nervous system.Nervous System: Histologyin thecerebral cortex...
mechanisms of deaths have eluded our understanding. Febrile seizures are common in young children; ~ 3% of US children 6 months to 5 years will experience one. SUDC however has been associated with a 10-fold increase in febrile seizures; our study is the first to implicate them at time of...