Antiepileptic Drugs
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Patients are often admitted to the neurosciences intensive care unit specifically for the treatment of a series of seizures or focal status epilepticus. Far more urgent is convulsive status epilepticus, which requires multiple intravenously administered antiepileptic drugs. The choices are different when the patient is in status epilepticus and refractoriness is mostly due to pharmacologic resistance. Use of an algorithm for decision making is common in the management of refractory status epilepticus. Antiepileptic drugs often interact with other antiepileptic drugs. This chapter discusses the use of antiepileptic drugs available to treat seizures, recurrent seizures, status epilepticus, and refractory status epilepticus.
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2008 ◽
Vol 25
(4)
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pp. 181-186
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2013 ◽
Vol 12
(4)
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pp. 360-366
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