ICU SAQs · Neurocritical care / monitoring
Non-convulsive status epilepticus — detection and management
A CICM SAQ on NCSE — the cEEG detection (the NCSE is common and invisible to the clinical exam), the Salzburg criteria, and the tiered treatment (benzodiazepine, levetiracetam/valproate/fosphenytoin, continuous infusion).
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A comatose ICU patient after a convulsive SE has not regained consciousness despite the resolution of the motor convulsions. Describe the role of the continuous EEG and the management.
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A comatose ICU patient after a convulsive SE has not regained consciousness despite the resolution of the motor convulsions. Describe the role of the continuous EEG and the management.[1]
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- [1]Bersten AD, Soni N (eds) Oh's Intensive Care Manual. 8th edition, Elsevier, 2018.