Seizures, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics

Andy Jagoda (Author), Edward P. Sloan (Author)

9781455704385, Elsevier Health Sciences

Hardback, published 29 December 2010

176 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 kg

This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics on Seizures will focus on topics such as: Seizure in the Emergency Department: Epidemiology and Cost to Society;Seizure and Status Epilepticus: Pathophysiology and Definitions ;The Diagnosis and Management of Seizures and Status Epilepticus in the Pre-hospital Setting ;The Emergency Department Evaluation of the Patients Who Present with a First Time Seizure;Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus: Treatment Guidelines and Protocols;Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus;Antiepileptic Drugs: The Old and the New;Seizures in Pregnancy / Eclampsia and Psychogenic Seizures

Subject Areas: Accident & emergency medicine [MMK]