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Introduction The UK ambulance service often attends to suspected seizures. Most persons attended to will not require the facilities of a hospital emergency department (ED) and so should be managed at ...

Introduction Seizures account for 2–3% of presentations to the Accident & Emergency department. The National Audit of Seizure management in Hospitals (NASH) has demonstrated significant variances with ...

EpiWatch, the Apple Watch-based epilepsy management company spun out from Johns Hopkins, announced it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its continuous seizure monitor platform that utilizes the ...

Objectives Suspected seizures are a common reason for emergency calls to ambulance services. Prehospital management of these patients is an important element of good quality care. The aim of this ...

Approximately 1.5 million US women with epilepsy are in the reproductive age range (15-49 years), with involvement of certain factors — endogenous and exogenous hormones, antiseizure medications (ASMs ...

Seizures are sudden, uncontrollable electrical disturbances in the brain. When pathways of communication between neurons (nerve cells) in the brain are disrupted, the opportunity for seizures arises.

The following is a summary of “Midazolam and Ketamine for Convulsive Status Epilepticus in the Out-of-Hospital Setting,” published in the December 2024 issue of Emergency Medicine by Zitek et al.

The following is a summary of “A Comparison of Treatment Practices for Newborn Seizure Management Across Level II and III Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the United States,” published in the ...