Status epilepticus is a very rare complication of electroconvulsive therapy. A case of a 58-year old patient with catatonic schizophrenia is reported who developed a status epilepticus after ECT. At a neurological critical care unit the status finally could be stopped. The origin of the epileptic status lastly remained unclear (German J Psychiatry 2013; 16(2): 81-83).

Emergency or "stat" EEGs are ordered on patients who are suspected to have serious acute brain dysfunction (ABD). Often, these patients are comatose or have some altered level of consciousness (ALOC) from stroke, brain hemorrhage, head trauma, encephalopathy, seizures, or status epilepticus--which may be convulsive (SE) or non-convulsive (NCSE). As the number of stat EEGs increases, consider al...

The ring chromosome 20 syndrome is a rare syndrome characterized by intractable epilepsy with particular electro clinical features including episodes of prolonged confusional state and nocturnal frontal lobe seizures. We report a 17-year-old girl who had intractable epilepsy with frontal seizure and prolonged confusional state secondary to non-convulsive status epilepticus. The diagnosis of rin...

Three patients who developed clinical evidence of non-convulsive status epilepticus while on high doses of the investigational antiepileptic drug, tiagabine are reported. This apparently paradoxical phenomenon developed when the tiagabine dose was increased to 48 mg/day in one patient, and to 60 mg/day in two other patients, in combination with other antiepileptic drugs. Seizure control improve...

JUSTIFICATION Status epilepticus has a wide etiological spectrum, and significant morbidity and mortality. Management using a pre-determined uniform protocol leads to better outcomes. Multiple protocols for management of childhood status epilepticus are available, without much consensus. PROCESS A 'Multi-disciplinary Consensus Development Workshop on Management of Status Epilepticus in Childr...

Acute seizures account for 1% of adult and 2% of pediatric emergency department visits, at an annual cost of $1 billion (in U.S. dollars).1 When seizures are prolonged or repetitive without recovery between episodes, the condition is termed status epilepticus, and it occurs in approximately 6% of visits to the emergency department for seizures. The cost for inpatient care of patients in status ...

Status epilepticus (SE) is one of the most common emergencies in neurocritical care. In Germany, the incidence of SE is about 17/100 000 per year, increasing with age [1]. Especially generalized convulsive (tonic-clonic) status epilepticus (GCSE) is still associated with a high risk of morbidity and mortality [2]. SE is defined as a single prolonged seizure or a series of two or more consecutiv...

The presence of cerebral palsy and that of slow growing brain tumors are risk factors for convulsive and nonconvulsive status epilepticus. Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) needs electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring to be confirmed as it may be clinically subtle. Furthermore, it may present with a variety of ictal EEG morphologies. We report a case of a patient with cerebral palsy and...