Guidance for: The acute management of status epilepticus in adult patients

Randeep Mullhi; Thomas  Hayton; Alex Midgley-Hunt; Michael Trimble; Umair Javaid  Chaudhary; Shanika  Samarasekera; James  France; Tonny  Veenith

doi:10.1177/17511437251321338

Guidance for: The acute management of status epilepticus in adult patients

Randeep Mullhi
, Thomas Hayton
, Alex Midgley-Hunt
, Michael Trimble
, Umair Javaid Chaudhary
, Shanika Samarasekera
, James France
, Tonny Veenith^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Status Epilepticus (SE) is a common medical emergency and it can occur both in patients with and without a history of epilepsy. Morbidity and mortality is high and increases with duration of uncontrolled seizures which necessitates early active treatment. 1 Despite this there is significant variation in the way SE is treated between centres and no nationally agreed guidelines for the management of SE in critical care. 2

These guidelines are based on multi-speciality consensus agreement between acute medicine, neurology, intensive care and emergency medicine. The critical care pharmacy group provided input on pharmaco-therapeutics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	249-262
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of the Intensive Care Society
Volume	26
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/17511437251321338
Publication status	Published - 08 May 2025
Externally published	Yes

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Guidance for: The acute management of status epilepticus in adult patients

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