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Pathophysiology of GCSEOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Status epilepticus (SE) is a medical and neurologic emergency. Given the significant risk of mortality, and the possibility of successful therapeutic intervention, it is essential for all physicians to be able to efficiently identify and treat patients in SE.The annual incidence of tpnic-clonic status is estimated to be 18-28 cases per 100 000 persons. The mortality rate is 22%.Earlier studies defined Status epilepticas by its duration; that is, when continuous seizures occurred for longer than 1 hour. Clinical and animal experiences later showed that pathological change and prognostic implications occurred when Status epilepticus .persisted for 30 minutes. Epilepsy Foundation of America’s working group defined status epilepticus as More than 30 minutes of continuous seizure activity or two or more sequential seizures without full recovery of consciousness between seizures. Then, the length of time for the definition was shortened to 20 , 10 and lastly five minutes Shinner et al., (2001) analyzed the duration of new-onset seizure activity in 407 children and concluded that, seizures lasting longer than five to ten minutes were unlikely to stop spontaneously, and should be treated.