NOUN
- a condition in which there are continuing attacks of epilepsy without intervals of consciousness; can lead to brain damage and death
How To Use status epilepticus In A Sentence
- The global excuse 'my brain made me do it' would reduce life to a condition of status epilepticus. Times, Sunday Times
- The illness was characterised by gait disturbance, a relapsing and remitting course, nystagmus, and status epilepticus.
- It has been postulated that mesial temporal sclerosis may be related to a complicated delivery, febrile convulsions during childhood, and status epilepticus.
- This progresses into "advanced stimulation" in which unresponsiveness, hyperreflexia, status epilepticus, irregular respirations (Cheynes-Stokes), malignant arrhythmias, and hypotension occurs. Cocaine Toxicity
- Pull quote: "Our mortality rate is 2-3 times that of the general population, between the seizure-related accidents, the suicides, the meds getting screwed up, SUDEP and status epilepticus. Friday!
- One of Devinsky's patients is a teenage boy who showed up at the hospital in December with status epilepticus of unknown origin, although Devinsky suspects a brain lesion from an undiagnosed infection. In the Grip of the Unknown
- This progresses into "advanced stimulation" in which unresponsiveness, hyperreflexia, status epilepticus, irregular respirations (Cheynes-Stokes), malignant arrhythmias, and hypotension occurs. Cocaine Toxicity
- Click here to read about Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy and status epilepticus. Friday!
- Seizures can be fatal, especially the rare status epilepticus, a continuous convulsion lasting longer than 10 minutes. In the Grip of the Unknown
- Parenteral paraldehyde may be indicated in the emergency treatment of status epilepticus and of convulsions induced by tetanus or eclampsia, when other agents are not effective.
