Mednet Logo
HomeNeurologyQuestion

Do you ever start a ketogenic diet in patients who present with status epilepticus admitted to the ICU?

1 Answers
Mednet Member
Mednet Member
Neurology · Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital Stanford

A ketogenic diet can be considered in super-refractory status epilepticus. There are a handful of small studies and case series that are mostly pediatric, but also a few adult papers (Camões et al., PMID 35081248, Katz et al., PMID 33671485, and Cai et al., Acta Epileptologica 2022), which suggest t...

Register or Sign In to see full answer