Status Epilepticus
Practical Guidelines in Management

Status Epilepticus (SE) is a single epileptic seizure lasting more than five minutes or two or more seizures within a five-minute period without the person returning to normal between them. SE is a life-threatening medical emergency particularly if treatment is delayed.

This book is a concise guide to Status Epilepticus for practitioners and trainees.

Beginning with an overview of the condition and the evolution of its definition over the years, the following chapters discuss prehospital management and investigations and monitoring. The remaining sections cover management therapies.

A flow chart and protocols are included to assist management in intensive care units and questions and answers are provided at the end of each chapter to enhance learning.

Key points

• Concise guide to diagnosis and management of Status Epilepticus
• Covers different management therapies
• Includes flow chart and protocols to assist management in intensive care units
• Questions and answers at the end of each chapter enhance learning

1. Evolution of ‘Definitions’ of Status Epilepticus and Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
2. Prehospital Management of Status Epilepticus
3. Investigations and Monitoring Protocol in Status Epilepticus
4. First-line Therapy in Status Epilepticus
5. Second-line Therapy in Status Epilepticus
6. Anesthetic Agents in Status Epilepticus
7. Refractory and Super-refractory Status Epilepticus
8. Critical Appraisal of Alternative Therapies in Refractory and Super-refractory Status Epilepticus;
9. Status Epilepticus in Special
10. When to Suspect, How to Identify and Treat Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
11. Management Protocol in Status Epilepticus -1
12. Management Protocol in Status Epilepticus -2

Index

Ashalatha Radhakrishnan
Consultant Neurologist and Epileptologist, R. Madhavan Nayar Centre for Comprehensive Epilepsy Care, Department of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India