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Seizures in a child

The paramedics arrive with a 3-year-old boy who has had two seizures today. He has known developmental delay but has no history of seizures previously

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December 2024

This month we have: Surgery for Haemorrhagic Stroke | RCEM Best Practice Guidelines for Acute Pain | Laura Howard and Gregory Yates – BestBETs | New Online

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Seizures

A patient starts seizing in your ED, standard management is commenced but the cause and management may not be so straightforward.

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Pause for Thought

You take handover for a patient in resus. They have presented with new onset of focal seizures. You start treatment but the convulsions are worsening. What will you do?

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April 2023

This month we discuss:
Using lactate to diagnose seizures, Non-fatal strangulation, Impact of familiarity on performance and New Online.

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Functional Seizures

Functional Seizures aren’t managed with benzodiazepines – but how do you tell functional seizures from epileptic ones?

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Paediatric Seizures – PEM Induction

The seizing child is truly a scary thing to behold. If you work in the Paediatric ED, you will, at some stage, come across a child who has had a seizure, is recovering from a seizure, or is actively seizing

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EMJ February 2020

This month we have BET 2: Is keeping the eyes shut while fitting predictive of a psychogenic cause for seizures? And initial focused assessment with sonography in trauma versus initial CT for patients with haemodynamically stable torso trauma

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Paediatric Seizures

The seizing child is truly a scary thing to behold. If you work in the Paediatric ED, you will, at some stage, come across a child who has had a seizure, is recovering from a seizure, or is actively seizing

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Acute Alcohol Withdrawal

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is defined by the World Health Organisation as consuming more than 40g/day of alcohol for males and 30mg/day of alcohol for females

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