Status Epilepticus
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Drugs for Seizure Disorders — Lehne's Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants▶ 7:02They are highly refractory to treatment, meaning the seizures resist our standard drug therapies, and they unfortunately come with severe developmental delaysAnd critically, as a clinician, you must be prepared to manage status epilepticusYes, which is defined as a seizure persisting for 15 to 30 minutes, or a series of recurrent seizures where the patient…Antiseizure Drugs & Epilepsy Treatment — Pharmacology: A Patient-Centered Nursing Process Approach▶ 2:37OkayFrom there, we'll tour the other drug classes, talk about the really scary stuff like status epilepticus and pregnancy complications, and then…SafetyEvaluation and Management of Neurologic Disorders — Primary Care: Interprofessional Collaborative Practice▶ 65:40This includes absent seizures, where a child might just stare blankly into space for 10 seconds, and the classic generalized tonic -clonic…The absolute most critical part of this chapter for any clinical student is the acute management of status epilepticus, or SEThis is a massive, life -threatening medical emergency