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A 27-year-old white male, John T., was brought to the emergency center by friends who said he had had a seizure. He promptly had another seizure in the emergency room and in a period of observation the EEG continued to show seizure activity; his level of consciousness varied; periodically he had additional peripheral discharges.
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Comstock, B.S. (1984). Suicide — Emergency Issues. In: Comstock, B.S., Fann, W.E., Pokorny, A.D., Williams, R.L. (eds) Phenomenology and Treatment of Psychiatric Emergencies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8108-2_7
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