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Seizures

Nursing, 2008
Abstract ‘Emergencies in Palliative Care’ includes 5 potentially life-threatening clinical presentations which palliative care doctors must be able to quickly recognise and manage. Acute conditions in this chapter arise from both advanced malignant disease and complications of treatment including cytotoxic chemotherapy and opioid use ...
Pamela J. Okada, Jonathan Marr
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SEIZURES

Neurologic Clinics, 1998
Seizures are one of the most common neurologic emergencies. This article reviews the emergency evaluation and treatment of seizures, including status epilepticus. Pseudoseizures related to drugs, alcohol, and pregnancy are also discussed.
H L, Roth, F W, Drislane
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When a seizure is not a real seizure!

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2016
We report here 2 cases of methadone induced Torsades de Pointes with a clinical presentation mimicking convulsive seizures in a substance abuser. These cases highlight the importance of being aware of methadone-induced Torsades de Pointes and the occasional atypical clinical presentations of this condition.
Farzaneh Ghobadi   +7 more
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Seizures

Neurologic Clinics, 1993
Alcohol-related seizures have been recognized since the time of Hippocrates. Most such seizures are related to acute abstinence from chronic, high doses of alcohol use. Increasing use of illicit drugs, especially cocaine, has dramatically increased the incidence of acute drug-toxicity-related seizures.
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Do seizures beget seizures?

2002
There have been suggestions that seizures in some way modify brain function and that each seizure increases the risk for further seizures. Reports thus far on this phenomenon have been flawed because of inappropriate study design. We have evaluated the risk for seizure recurrence following a first unprovoked seizure in a cohort identified at their ...
Ju R Lee, W. Allen Hauser
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Seizure disorders

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 2004
The diagnosis and management of patients with epilepsy is often undertaken by pediatricians, internists, and geriatricians (primary care physicians [PCPs]). Although referral to a neurologist may be necessary if the diagnosis of epilepsy is unclear or if the patient does not respond to initial therapy with antiepileptic drugs, PCPs may subsequently ...
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Sensory seizure mimicking a psychogenic seizure

Neurology, 1983
A patient had episodes of bilateral paresthesias with retained consciousness. The attacks were clinically considered to be psychogenic seizures. Electroencephalography indicated that the attacks were epileptic, perhaps originating from the second sensory area. Electroencephalographic recording of a seizure is essential in differentiating epileptic from
John P. Conomy   +4 more
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Incidence, prevalence and aetiology of seizures and epilepsy in children.

Epileptic disorders, 2015
AIM To (1) summarize published, peer-reviewed literature about the incidence and prevalence of epilepsy in children from developed and developing countries around the world, and (2) discuss problems in defining aetiologies of epilepsy in children, and ...
P. Camfield, C. Camfield
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