Introduction Status Epilipticus (SE) is a neurological emergency defined as a tonic, clonic or tonic clonic convulsive that last for at least 30 minutes [1, 2] which is the estimated duration necessary to cause injury to the central nervous system neurons [3] or can be defined as a condition with two or more separated seizures between which there is incomplete recovery of consciousness [3]. SE annual incidence of 10–40 per 100 000 population. The rate is higher among children < 1 year and adults > 65 years, and higher in men than women [4]. Status epilepticus is often linked to high mortality. About 20% of patients died within the first 30 days [5]. Status Epilepticus can be classified to: 1- Convulsive status epilepticus that is associated…
Emergency management of status epilepticus Abstract Status epilepticus is a common medical emergency presentation to the emergency department. The seizures account for about 1% of all ED presentations and about 30% of neurological presentations. Most seizures terminate within 5 minutes and those that don’t are often prolonged and significant neuronal injury occurs well before 30 minutes. This is a case history of a girl who presented with status epilepticus to the PCU of Lady Ridgeway…
The article Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Status Epilepticus is a report of a case in which an adolescent boy with epilepsy was admitted to the hospital in critical condition because of a prolonged period of status epilepticus. Status epilepticus (SE) is defined as, “An epileptic seizure that lasts more than 30 minutes; a constant or near-constant state of having seizures. Status epilepticus is a health crisis, and requires immediate treatment.” (Medicinenet.com) The adolescent boy had…
Different studies shows that patient socio demographic status are risk factors for epilepsy and/or increase seizure frequency include age, sex, educational status, occupation (working hours)and ethnicity (2, 7, 22-24). However, a cross sectional study conducted in Egypt showed that there is no significant difference in age, sex, age of onset of epilepsy, duration of disease and type of seizure among those who experience seizure and those who don’t but Number of antiepileptic drug…
CHRONOTHERAPEUTIC FORMULATION OF LEVETIRACETAM FOR THE TREATMENT OF NOCTURNAL EPILEPSY Akila RM*, Nitin Kaushik *Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Paramedical Sciences, Coimbatore-641044, Tamilnadu, India. *e-mail:ktakila@yahoo.co.in ABSTRACT In general, as a subclass of epilepsy, nocturnal epilepsy intensify one of the major problems of epilepsy as it is less likely witnessed than daytime epilepsy and therefore it is very difficult to diagnose and…
Epilepsy and the Oral Cavity Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder (neurological disorder) in which nerve cell activity in the brain becomes disrupted, causing seizures or periods of unusual behavior, sensations and sometimes loss of consciousness (MayoClinic). Diagnosis of epilepsy is not an easy task as it comes in many forms and can range anywhere from a blank stare to full body convulsions, but once it is diagnosed, epilepsy can often be treated with medication and the patient can…
Philosophy on Women Women are seen from many different perspectives by philosophers. Plato, Aquinas, and Aristotle each expressed their opinions on women and women 's’ roles in society differently. Plato believed that women should be treated as property of man and not as individuals. Aristotle taught that women had some use, but are very low class of the society classes compared to the males. Aquinas on the other hand believed and taught that women are not superior to men, but have a…
Each boy on the island arrived with his own status sets, or a grouping of all the positions that individual holds. They all contained the ascribed status of a young boy, English school child, son, etc. However, it truly was the achieved statuses that set them apart. Ralph earned his achieved status of leader when he was elected. He did not let this achieved status alter who he was as a person. On the other hand, Jack someone declared his achieved status of leader of the hunters. He let…
Group processes focus on how individuals interact in groups. Power and justice are the two of predominant orienting frameworks in the group processes. In another way, black people is a group, white people is another group. Therefore, black people want to join in to the white people group to get higher social status and more job opportunities for higher wages, however white people resist black people to join in because the racial problems and the reason for decreasing rivals. That makes white…
It uses ideas like social status, wealth and education to systematically exclude certain groups from obtaining equal diabetes health outcomes. One pathway that SES uses to create disparity in diabetes health is through educational differences. As was seen previously, attaining higher education is associated with better diabetes health outcomes. This is in part because more education leads to more knowledge of diabetes and healthy behaviors in general (Kemper, Savage, Niederbaumer & Anthony,…