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Management of Seizures and Status Epilepticus

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Convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) is a common emergency in childhood and is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. There is a lack of consensus on the management of CSE in children, mainly due to regional variations in the availability and licensing of drugs used in treatment of CSE and also due to insufficient evidence base particularly for drugs used to treat refractory CSE. In this chapter, we discuss the rationale for early treatment of seizures, available treatment options, and present a stepwise treatment algorithm for the management of CSE in children.

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  1. Department of Paediatric Neurosciences, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK

    Suresh Pujar MBBS, MD, MRCPCH & Rod C. Scott MD, PhD

  2. Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    James J. Riviello Jr. MD

  3. NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    James J. Riviello Jr. MD

  4. Department of Neurology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA

    Rod C. Scott MD, PhD

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  1. Department of Pediatric Neurology, Astrid Lindgrens Barnsjukhus, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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  2. Department of Pediatric Neurology, Driscoll Children's Hospital, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA

    Ching H. Wang

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Pujar, S., Riviello, J.J., Scott, R.C. (2014). Management of Seizures and Status Epilepticus. In: Sejersen, T., Wang, C. (eds) Acute Pediatric Neurology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-491-3_11

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