Polypharmacy as part of comprehensive geriatric assessment: disclosure of false diagnosis of atrial fibrillation by drug revision.

part, for the relatively benign outcome. Although intravenous treatment of seizures is considered to be associated with morbidity and mortality in older people because of hypotensive, cardiac depressant and sedative effects of antiepileptic drugs, our experience suggests that, with the appropriate indications and when taking the proper precautions, such therapy is well tolerated in elderly patients with NCSE.