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3 days ago · This issue of Emergency Medicine Practice provides an evidence-based review of the diagnosis and management of adult patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with seizure and SE, with a focus on the clinical situations most commonly encountered in daily practice.
4 days ago · Febrile seizures are seizures caused by a rapid increase in body temperature, with a fever higher than 38 C or 100.4 F, without any underlying seizure-provoking causes or disorders, such as central nervous system infections, electrolyte imbalances, drug withdrawal, trauma, genetic susceptibility, or known epilepsy.
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2 days ago · It is found that 22.7% of FS recurred after the initial episode. 43 By contrast, CwG has a lower recurrence rate ranging from 4.3% to 20%. 26, 35, 38, 40 Meanwhile, a study found that younger age, family history of FS, and low temperature before the initial seizure were powerful risk factors that determine the recurrence of febrile seizures. 44 ...
2 days ago · The frantic first-time mum hurried out of the bush, performed CPR and called an ambulance. While waiting, the atonic seizure, with no convulsions, stopped. But the next day in hospital Fern had her first tonic clonic seizure, with convulsions. “We thought they were febrile seizures, which are fairly common,” says her dad, Philip Stevens.
2 days ago · The type of seizures/convulsions is a generalized tonic-clonic seizure, including very few patients with previously diagnosed febrile seizures presenting as atonic and binocular staring. As the pathogenesis of IAE and ANE is not fully understood, there is an overlap between the symptoms of the two disorders [ 20 , 21 , 22 ].
5 days ago · As understanding of the pathophysiology of seizure types and syndromes evolves, so does the range of treatment options for managing this complex, lifelong, and often disabling disease. The materials available on this page include accredited activities, resources, and suggested reading.
2 days ago · EPIDEMIOLOGY Febrile seizures are the most common seizure disorder in childhood Occur in 2-4% of children In 20% of cases first FEBRILE SEIZURE IS COMPLEX The most common age of onset is the SECOND year Male > Female
